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Affective forecasting

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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.…
You are remarkably poor at predicting your future emotions.
The affective forecasting error demonstrates that people consistently overestimate the intensity and duration of their…
You consistently overestimate how long you will feel hurt.
People regularly miscalculate the duration and intensity of their emotional reactions to future negative events.…