"HOW HAPPY WAS I, ANYWAY?" A RETROSPECTIVE IMPACT BIAS

By Timothy D. Wilson, Jay Meyers, Daniel T Gilbert. 2003

171 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Sociology and Political Science

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In Applied Psychology

1. Paul Dolan
2. J. Alba
3. George Loewenstein
4. Eli J. Finkel
5. Daniel Kahneman
6. Dale W. Griffin
7. Jennifer L. Aaker
8. Elanor F. Williams

In General Decision Sciences

1. Daniel Kahneman
2. Paul Dolan
3. George Loewenstein
4. J. Alba
5. Eli J. Finkel
6. Dale W. Griffin
7. Jennifer L. Aaker
8. Elanor F. Williams

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Dale W. Griffin
2. A. Drolet
3. Paul Dolan
4. George Loewenstein
5. Eli J. Finkel
6. Daniel Kahneman
7. J. Alba
8. Tamar Krishnamurti

Citations in the corpus

• Pleasure principles: A review of research on hedonic consumption (2013, background): “First, because people's memory for a positive outcome exceeds the actual experience (e.g., Wilson et al., 2003), they are unlikely to be circumspect about future extreme expectations.”
• Recalling Mixed Emotions (2008, background): “…after the 2004 election than they actually were, perhaps because they were recalling how unhappy they were through the lens of their current, unrationalized view (e.g., “Gore would have been a much better president; I must have been really unhappy when he lost”; Wilson, Meyers, and Gilbert 2003).”
• Functions of remembering and misremembering emotion (2009, unknown): “One feature of bias in memory for emotion that has mystified investigators is why people exaggerate so often when recalling past emotions (e.g. Wilson et al., 2003).”
• Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health (2008, background): “current preferences to rationalise a previous change (Wilson et al., 2003), so they may well remember the transition into their current health state as being less intense than it”
• Mispredicting distress following romantic breakup: Revealing the time course of the affective forecasting error (2008, background): “Previous successful within-subjects designs have used lost football games (Wilson et al., 2000), disappointing elections, or negative feedback in an experimental setting (Gilbert et al., 1998; Wilson, Meyers, & Gilbert, 2003 ); these events, though clearly unpleasant, probably do not have the same ”