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emotion
You are terrible at predicting your feelings in a cold state.
The hot-cold empathy gap prevents you from accurately anticipating how you will behave when you are hungry, angry, or excited.
When you are calm, you underestimate how much intense emotions will alter your decision-making. You plan to eat a healthy meal later, but when hunger strikes, you abandon the plan entirely. Your current emotional state blocks you from empathizing with your own future emotional intensity.
You are a stranger to your own future reactions.
Where this comes from
- Study
- George Loewenstein (2005)
- What the check found
- The claim accurately captures the definition and primary effect of the hot-cold empathy gap, a concept for which George Loewenstein is the primary architect.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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