Miswanting: Some Problems in the Forecasting of Future Affective States

By Daniel T Gilbert, Timothy D. Wilson. 2000

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Pleasure principles: A review of research on hedonic consumption (2013, background): “…between the predicted and actual duration of the impact of events on one's happiness, with the result that people typically overestimate the persistence of a blessing's effect in prospect (e.g., Wilson et al., 2000) and consequently “miswant” that blessing to occur (Gilbert & Wilson, 2005).”
Anticipatory and consummatory components of the experience of pleasure: A scale development study (2006, unknown): “…Morrone-Strupinsky & Depue, 2004) as well as empirical work in neuroscience (e.g., Berridge & Robinson, 1998; Knutson et al., 2001), psychopathology (e.g., Gard et al., 2000; Klein, 1984), and social psychology (e.g., Gilbert & Wilson, 2000) have all supported the importance of this distinction .”
Beyond the hedonic treadmill: revising the adaptation theory of well-being. (2006, background): “Such research findings tell more about the average person’s affective forecasting errors than about adaptation itself (Gilbert & Wilson, 2000).”
Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past (2013, background): “Likewise, the pioneering work of Gilbert and Wilson, who introduced the term “prospection” (Gilbert, 2006; Gilbert & Wilson, 2006, 2007), also emphasizes failures and errors in “affective forecasting.””
Self-Efficacy and Interest: Experimental Studies of Optimal Incompetence. (2003, background): “Indeed, people s judgments of how they would feel in a situation usually differ from how they actually feel when put in the situation (Gilbert & Wilson, 2000).”
Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Reformulating the Dynamic and Modular Bases of Subjective Well-Being (2005, unknown): “As demonstrated in the phenomenon of affective forecasting (Gilbert & Wilson, 2000), expectations about the overwhelming impact of adversity are commonplace and lead people to grossly underestimate their future happiness.”
Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health (2008, background): “To the extent that our wants, as captured by our decisions, are based on predictions of what we will subsequently enjoy, we are often guilty of miswanting i.e. we want things that do not make us happier or we do not want things that would make us happier (Gilbert and Wilson, 2000).”
Predicting the Future: How Affect-Related Personality Traits Influence Likelihood Judgments of Future Events (2002, unknown): “Another line of research suggests that people overestimate their emotional reactions to positive and negative future events (Gilbert, Pinel, Wilson, Blumberg, & Wheatley, 1998; Gilbert & Wilson, 2000).”
Give them what they want: The benefits of explicitness in gift exchange (2011, background): “Specifically, Gilbert and Wilson (2000) describe miswanting as a lack of coordination between what we want and what actually makes us happy.”
Bounded awareness: what you fail to see can hurt you (2007, background): “" Focalism " is the common tendency to focus too much on a particular event (the " focal event " ) and too little on other events that are likely to occur concurrently (Gilbert & Wilson, 2000; Wilson, Wheatly, Meyers, Gilbert, & Axsom, 2000).”
HAPPINESS AND PUBLIC POLICY: A CHALLENGE TO (2006, background): “11 See Loewenstein and Schkade (1999), Loewenstein et al. (2003), Frey and Stutzer (2003) and Gilbert and Watson (2001).”