Affective Forecasting: the Effects of Immune Neglect and Surrogation
Description:
Studies of affective forecasting examine people’s ability to predict (forecast) their emotional (affective) responses to future events. Affective forecasts underlie nearly all decisions people make and the actions they take. However, people engage in systematic cognitive errors when making affective forecasts and most often overestimate the intensity and duration of their emotional responses. Understanding the mechanisms that lead to affective forecasting errors (e.g., immune neglect) and exami…
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Date:
August 2012
Creator:
Burkman, Summer Dae
Partner:
UNT Libraries