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#Recent work on affective forecasting suggests that individuals are poor emotional time travelers | #Recent work on affective forecasting suggests that individuals are poor emotional time travelers | ||
#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 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 | #Colleagues: Jody Davis, Eli Finkel, and Glenn Lucke | ||