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Affective Forecasting Social Psyc Paper 8
Question | Answer |
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What is impact bias? | impact bias is the tendency that people have to overestimate how powerfully the event will impact their emotional lives. |
What are the four components of Affective forecasting? | 1.)Predicting Valence 2.)Predicting Specific Emotions 3.)Predicting Intensity 4.)Predicting Duration |
Define Predicting Valence? | Predicting How positive or negative a persons feelings will be "I’ll feel good if I get that job!" |
Define Predicting Specific Emotions | Predicting the specific emotions that people will feel. “I feel joy, disgust, anger, etc.. “ |
Define Predicting Intensity as one of the four components of Affective Forecasting | Predicting what the initial intensity of the reaction will be (How much joy they will experience.) |
Define Predicting Duration | Predicting what the duration of the reaction will be (How long will it last) |
Define Durability Bias | People tend to overestimate the impact of future events on their emotional lives. a formula that shows how people overestimate their own emotional reactions People make prediction errors whether it is how joyous they will be or how unhappy they will be |
How do you measure affective behavior ? | With self report scales like the SWL (Satisfaction with life Scale" or the PANAS Positive and Negative Affect Schedules. |