The Future Is Now: Temporal Correction in Affective Forecasting☆

By Daniel T Gilbert, M. Gill, Timothy D. Wilson. 2002

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences

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Wealth, Warmth, and Well-Being: Whether Happiness is Relative or Absolute Depends on Whether it is about Money, Acquisition, or Consumption (2009, unknown): “Another potential alternative explanation involves the possibility that social comparison when receiving coupons may have biased participants’ predictions (e.g., Gilbert, Gill, and Wilson 2002).”
Perspective: Linking Design Thinking with Innovation Outcomes through Cognitive Bias Reduction (2015, background): “Gilbert et al. (2002) agree, citing multiple sources that decisionmakers’ assessments of their reaction to imaginary events activate many of the same neurological pathways and thus can stand in for the events themselves.”
Motivation and the Goal Theory of Current Concerns (2011, background): “…consider in greater detail the context of their activities and lives at and after the time of the future event whose impact they are forecasting (Gilbert et al., 2002; Wilson et al., 2000), as well as reflecting on their inner emotional coping skills for reducing negative affect (Gilbert et…”
Interpretations of Utility and Their Implications for the Valuation of Health (2008, background): “For example, Gilbert et al. (2002a) asked voters in Texas during the 1990 election for governor (which was won by George W. Bush) how they would feel one month after the election if their candidate had lost.”
Using Behavioral Economics to Design More Effective Food Policies to Address Obesity (2014, background): “…when researchers manipulated shoppers’ hunger and whether or not they had a grocery list with them while shopping, they found that hungry shoppers purchased a larger proportion of unplanned, impulse items, but only when they did not have a grocery list to keep them on track (Gilbert et al. 2002).”
Bikinis Instigate Generalized Impatience in Intertemporal Choice (2008, background): “…1996): hungry people order more food than they can eat (the “eyes bigger than your stomach” effect), buy more food than originally intended (Gilbert, Gill, and Wilson 2002; Nisbett and Kanouse 1969), have a stronger preference for candy over fruit (Read and van Leeuwen 1998), and…”
Projection Bias in Predicting Future Utility (2000, unknown): “Outside the medical domain, Gilbert et al. [1998] compared (among other things) assistant professors’ predictions of the impact of getting or being denied tenure to the self-reports of former assistant professors, and Loewenstein and Frederick [1997] compared the predictions by survey respondents of”
Weather to go to College (2010, background): “Prior research, for example, has shown that grocery shoppers buy more items if shopping while hungry (Gilbert et al., 2002), that current arousal influences predictions about future sexual behaviour (Ariely and Loewenstein, 2006) and that catalogue orders for winter clothing are more likely to be re”
Perspective taking in children and adults: Equivalent egocentrism but differential correction (2004, background): “Many of the biases commonly associated with these judgments—such as the correspondence bias in dispositional inference—are also increased when the ability to correct is hindered by attentional load (Gilbert, 1989; Gilbert & Gill, 2000; Gilbert et al., 2002) and decreased when the inclination to corr”