Affective Forecasting

By Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel T Gilbert. 2005

356 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Decision Sciences, Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/026450847572b1115b4b84ea47eea3c13c1adbb3

Citations in the corpus

• How does happiness relate to economic behaviour? A review of the literature (2017, unknown): “…methods of this sort relies on some subjects failing to choose happiness-maximising actions, presumably through errors in affective forecasting ( Wilson and Gilbert, 2005 ). d t An alternative method some experiments use is to randomly asign some subjects to behave in one way and others to…”
• INCREASING SAVING BEHAVIOR THROUGH AGE-PROGRESSED RENDERINGS OF THE FUTURE SELF (2011, unknown): “In line with this sentiment, recent research has argued that consumers suffer “empathy gaps” and may misunderstand how they will feel in the future about decisions they make in the present (Loewenstein, O’Donoghue, and Rabin 2003; Wilson and Gilbert 2005).”
• Mental Imagery: Functional Mechanisms and Clinical Applications (2015, unknown): “Beyond visual working memory, we know that imagery plays a role in affective forecasting [104], eye witness memory [105], making certain moral decisions [106], prior expectation templates to aid in predictable visual tasks [107], and facilitating emotion [108].”
• Effective regulation of affect: An action control perspective on emotion regulation (2012, unknown): “Unfortunately people are often inaccurate at making predictions about their future emotions (or ‘‘affective forecasting’’), and there is evidence that people tend to overestimate the duration and intensity of their emotional responses (Wilson & Gilbert, 2005).”
• Back to the future: the effect of daily practice of mental time travel into the future on happiness and anxiety (2009, unknown): “Do imagined positive events still lead to happiness when one is disappointed by the actual events (as has been shown in research on affective forecasting bias; see Wilson and Gilbert, 2005)?”
• How We Feel is a Matter of Time: Relationships Between Time Perspectives and Mood (2014, unknown): “Such designs are typically used in studies of emotional forecasting (Wilson and Gilbert 2005) and retrospective bias in mood recall (Robinson and Clore 2002).”
• The Future and the Will: Planning requires self-control, and ego depletion leads to planning aversion (2018, unknown): “…Weinstein, 1980), affective forecasting (i.e., the prediction of one's future emotional states) (Gilbert, Pinel, Wilson, Blumberg, & Wheatley, 1998; Wilson & Gilbert, 2005), and the use of trained and selected teams to predict important collective events (Tetlock & Gardner, 2016; Tetlock, Mellers,…”
• Flourishing in nature: A review of the benefits of connecting with nature and its application as a wellbeing intervention (2015, unknown): “Although people often overestimate the impact of emotional experiences (i.e., people make affective forecasting errors; Wilson & Gilbert, 2005), the reverse may be true for contact with nature.”
• Greater Happiness for a Greater Number (2010, unknown): “Economists call this “expected utility” or “decision utility” and acknowledge that this may differ from later “experienced utility,” because decisions are made mostly on the basis of incomplete information (e.g., Wilson & Gilbert, 2005).”
• Unethical Pro-organizational Behavior and Positive Leader–Employee Relationships (2019, unknown): “However, research suggests that intentions do not always predict actual behavior (e.g., Sheeran 2002), and that individuals are particularly poor at affective forecasting (e.g., Wilson and Gilbert 2005).”