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 #His research has focused on affective forecasting for moral behaviors. He found that individuals feel worse after competition and better after cooperation than they would have predicted!
 #Recent work on affective forecasting suggests that individuals are poor emotional time travelers
-#This research includes a series of experimental laboratory studies and a six-month longitudinal study of couples designed to investigate the following three questions.
+#Series of experimental laboratory studies and a six-month longitudinal study of couples designed to investigate the following three questions:
+** Do affective forecasting errors occur for moral decisions? Differences between predicted and actual emotional consequences of benevolent behavior (e.g., forgiving a dating partner) versus hurtful behavior (e.g., retaliating against a dating partner) are examined.
+** Do interpersonal affective forecasting errors occur for moral decisions? Differences between individuals’ predictions about the emotional experiences of others and others’ actual emotional experiences as a consequence of individuals’ benevolent or hurtful behavior are investigated.
+** Who is “wise”? Researchers will attempt to identify the wisest (i.e., most accurate affective forecasters) individuals via a series of personality measures.
 #Colleagues: Jody Davis, Eli Finkel, and Glenn Lucke