Intensity Bias in Affective Forecasting: The Role of Temporal Focus

By R. Buehler, C. McFarland. 2001

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Aspects of a Psychology of the Tourist Experience (2007, result): “…(2003) explain the finding with the general tendency in humans to overestimate the intensity of affect in both directions – an interpretation consistent with several other findings in the literature (Thomas & Diener, 1990; Mitchell, Thompson, Petersen & Cronk, 1997; Buehler & McFarland, 2001).”
"HOW HAPPY WAS I, ANYWAY?" A RETROSPECTIVE IMPACT BIAS (2003, background): “(2000) studies, for example, had watched their favorite team win and lose many previous games, and students in the Buehler and McFarland (2001) studies had taken many previous college tests.”
Distortion in Memory for Emotions: The Contributions of Personality and Post-Event Knowledge (2002, background): “People typically overestimate when they are asked to predict the duration or intensity of their emotional responses to future events, such as not receiving tenure or the victory of a favorite sports team (Buehler & McFarland, 2001; Gilbert, Pinel, Wilson, Blumberg, & Wheatley, 1998).”
Pleasure principles: A review of research on hedonic consumption (2013, background): “This work typically finds that people overestimate the duration (e.g., Gilbert, Pinel, Wilson, Blumberg, & Wheatley, 2002) and intensity (e.g., Buehler & McFarland, 2001) of their affective reactions to both negative events (Gilbert, Pinel, Wilson, Blumberg, & Wheatley, 1998) and positive events…”