Focalism: a source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

By Timothy D. Wilson, Thalia Wheatley, J. M. Meyers, Daniel T Gilbert, D. Axsom. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2000

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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"HOW HAPPY WAS I, ANYWAY?" A RETROSPECTIVE IMPACT BIAS (2003, background): “For example, college football fans overestimated the impact of a win by their favorite team (Wilson et al., 2000), and college students overestimated the impact of receiving an unexpectedly high or low grade on a test (Buehler & McFarland, 2001).”
Life is Pleasant—and Memory Helps to Keep it that Way! (2003, background): “This research shows that people routinely overestimate the long-term emotional impact of negative events (Gilbert, Pinel, Wilson, Blumberg, & Wheatley, 1998; Wilson, Wheatley, Meyers, Gilbert, & Axsom, 2000 ).”
Distinguishing the reflective, algorithmic, and autonomous minds: Is it time for a tri-process theory? (2008, background): “…(1999, 2005) principle of truth, focusing (Legrenzi et al., 1993), the effect/effort issues discussed by Sperber et al. (1995), and finally, the focalism (Wilson et al., 2000) and belief acceptance (Gilbert, 1991) issues that have been prominent in the social psychological literature.”
Flawed Self-Assessment (2004, neutral): “College students were asked to imagine the aftermath of a football game being played by their school’s team and were then specifically requested to predict howmuch theirmoodwould be influenced in thedays following the game if their teamwonor lost (Wilson et al., 2000).”
Emotional transfer in goal systems (2004, background): “Over the past several years, research on goal-related experience has focused mainly on emotional reactions to successful or unsuccessful goal attainment, providing insights as to how motivation influences affect (Carver & Scheier, 1990; Csikszentmihalyi, 1975; Dweck & Leggett, 1988; Gilbert, Pinel, ”
Motivation and the Goal Theory of Current Concerns (2011, background): “…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 al., 1998).”
Variety-Seeking Tendency in Choice for Others: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Causes (2006, background): “, the focal event) and fail to consider the consequences of other events (Wilson et al. 2000).”
The illusion of courage in social predictions: Underestimating the impact of fear of embarrassment on other people ! (2005, positive): “This “emotional focusing” can increase the judgmental weight of emotional information relative to non-emotional information, exacerbating the tendency to underweight non-focal information when making predictions (Chambers, Windschitl, & Suls, 2003; Kruger & Burrus, 2003; Moore & Kim, 2003; Savitsky,”
Opportunity Cost Neglect (2009, background): “In research on affective forecasting, judgments about one's current or future well-being are excessively sensitive to current mood or the domain that the research instrument happens to make momentarily accessible, to the neglect of other relevant factors (e.g., Loewenstein and Frederick 1997; Schkad”
If money doesn't make you happy, then you probably aren't spending it right (2011, background): “Wilson et al. (2000) found evidence for this idea by surveying football fans at the University of Virginia (UVA) prior to a big game against a rival school.”