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Affective forecasting. Affective forecasting, also known as hedonic forecasting or the hedonic forecasting mechanism, is the prediction of one's affect (emotional state) in the future. [1] As a process that influences preferences, decisions, and behavior, affective forecasting is studied by both psychologists and economists, with broad ...
In the psychology of affective forecasting, the impact bias, a form of which is the durability bias, is the tendency for people to overestimate the length or the intensity of future emotional states. [1]
Prospection. In psychology, prospection is the generation and evaluation of mental representations of possible futures. The term therefore captures a wide array of future-oriented psychological phenomena, including the prediction of future emotion (affective forecasting), the imagination of future scenarios (episodic foresight), and planning.
wjh-www.harvard.edu /~dtg /. Daniel Todd Gilbert (born November 5, 1957) is an American social psychologist and writer. He is the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and is known for his research with Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia on affective forecasting. He is the author of the international bestseller ...
Attitude (psychology) Two children at a playground talking and demonstrating a positive attitude. An attitude "is a summary evaluation of an object of thought. An attitude object can be anything a person discriminates or holds in mind." Attitudes include beliefs (cognition), emotional responses (affect) and behavioral tendencies (intentions ...
The theory of constructed emotion (formerly the conceptual act model of emotion [ 1 ]) is a theory in affective science proposed by Lisa Feldman Barrett to explain the experience and perception of emotion. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The theory posits that instances of emotion are constructed predictively by the brain in the moment as needed.
Lisa Feldman Barrett. Lisa Feldman Barrett is a Canadian-American psychologist. She is a University Distinguished Professor of psychology at Northeastern University, [1] where she focuses on affective science [2] and co-directs the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. [3] She has received both of the highest scientific honors in the ...
Assessing relevance: Emotions help decision makers decide whether a certain element of the decision is relevant to their particular situations. Each person’s personal history and state (s) of mind leads to a different set of relevant information. The two such emotions most studied to date are regret and disappointment.