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Future

Everything on this site about future — each one naming the study behind it.

You overestimate how your future self will feel.
The projection bias causes you to project your current tastes or preferences onto your future decisions.…
You fixate on one detail while ignoring the context.
Focalism is the tendency to focus on a single event when predicting its impact on future well-being while neglecting o…
You think of future plans in impossible terms.
Construal level theory explains that the more distant an event is, the more abstractly you represent it.…
You believe your future is better than your present.
The optimism bias is a persistent cognitive error where you underestimate the likelihood of negative events and overes…
You think your future self will share your current tastes.
The projection bias is your systematic failure to predict how your future preferences will change based on your curren…
You are a terrible judge of your future self.
A 2003 study found that people systematically underestimate how much their future preferences will change based on the…
You judge your future self by your current needs.
Projection bias causes people to overestimate the degree to which their future tastes and preferences will resemble th…