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emotion
You consistently mispredict how long your emotional reactions will last.
People significantly overestimate how long they will feel sad after a breakup or happy after a promotion.
Affective forecasting shows that our brain ignores the 'immune neglect' factor. We forget that our daily life and its routines have a strong baseline pull that returns us to normal faster than expected.
Your future grief will be shorter than you think.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Gilbert et al., 1998
- What the check found
- The claim accurately reflects the core finding of Gilbert et al. (1998) regarding immune neglect and durability bias, although the provided text does not explicitly contain the quote.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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