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focalism
You give too much weight to a specific detail.
When evaluating life satisfaction, people tend to focus on a single piece of information while ignoring the larger context.
The original study by Schkade and Kahneman focused on regional differences (weather) rather than all complex decision-making scenarios.
Nothing is as important as you think it is while you are thinking about it.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Schkade and Kahneman, 1998, Psychological Science
- What the check found
- The core concept is correct, but the claim generalizes the finding (originally specific to life satisfaction) to all 'complex situations' without noting the original context.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.