Affective forecasting refers to the capacity to predict future feelings. Humans have been
found to exhibit systematic affective forecasting biases that involve overestimation of the …

This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the
American Psychological Association, Diane F. Halpern, applies theory and research from …

Humans are capable of imagining future rewards and the contexts in which they may be
obtained. Functionally, intertemporal choices between smaller but immediate and larger but …

People mentally simulate future events, visualise themselves in these events, and then
make predictions about how they would feel. This process is referred to as affective …

Excessive delay discounting (DD) has been related to various maladaptive behaviors and
may stem from a myopic focus on immediate gratification. Neuroimaging studies have …

Evidence for affective forecasting errors is mixed. We review recent studies to determine
whether taking a discrete versus dimensional approach to measuring affective forecasting …

Abstract/Synopsis People are able to make many quick and efficient decisions each day by,
often nonconsciously, relying on cognitive schemas or short cuts. These short cuts allow …

Only recently have researchers begun to examine individual differences in affective
forecasting. The present investigation was designed to make a theoretical contribution to this …

Emerging research has examined individual differences in affective forecasting; however,
we are aware of no published study to date linking psychopathology symptoms to affective …

Research on affective forecasting shows that people have a robust tendency to overestimate
the intensity of future emotion. We hypothesized that (a) people can accurately predict the …