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You overvalue the impact of one life change.
The focusing illusion is a cognitive error where, when prompted to consider a specific factor's impact on life satisfaction, people disproportionately overestimate that factor's importance compared to other influences.
It is an error in evaluation rather than a general state of ignoring aspects of life.
Your current obsession is smaller than you think.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Schkade and Kahneman, 1998
- What the check found
- The definition is directionally correct but mischaracterizes a specific judgment error as a broader behavior of ignoring life factors.
- 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.