Carey K Morewedge

Summary

Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi The least likely of times: how remembering the past biases forecasts of the future
    Carey K Morewedge
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 16:626-30. 2005
  2. ncbi Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gains
    Carey K Morewedge
    Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, MA 02138, USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 136:700-9. 2007
  3. ncbi Timescale bias in the attribution of mind
    Carey K Morewedge
    Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 93:1-11. 2007
  4. ncbi Looking forward to looking backward: the misprediction of regret
    Daniel T Gilbert
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 15:346-50. 2004
  5. ncbi Making sense by making sentient: effectance motivation increases anthropomorphism
    Adam Waytz
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 99:410-35. 2010
  6. ncbi The peculiar longevity of things not so bad
    Daniel T Gilbert
    Harvard University, USA
    Psychol Sci 15:14-9. 2004

Detail Information

Publications6

  1. ncbi The least likely of times: how remembering the past biases forecasts of the future
    Carey K Morewedge
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 16:626-30. 2005
    ..The results suggest that the impact bias (the tendency to overestimate the affective impact of future events) may be due in part to people's reliance on highly available but unrepresentative memories of the past...
  2. ncbi Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gains
    Carey K Morewedge
    Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Princeton, MA 02138, USA
    J Exp Psychol Gen 136:700-9. 2007
    ..Segregation of small gains decreased rather than increased hedonic benefit. These experiments suggest that people may underestimate the value of the hedonic limen and thus may oversegregate small gains...
  3. ncbi Timescale bias in the attribution of mind
    Carey K Morewedge
    Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08542, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 93:1-11. 2007
    ....
  4. ncbi Looking forward to looking backward: the misprediction of regret
    Daniel T Gilbert
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    Psychol Sci 15:346-50. 2004
    ..These results suggest that people are less susceptible to regret than they imagine, and that decision makers who pay to avoid future regrets may be buying emotional insurance that they do not actually need...
  5. ncbi Making sense by making sentient: effectance motivation increases anthropomorphism
    Adam Waytz
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA
    J Pers Soc Psychol 99:410-35. 2010
    ..Anthropomorphizing nonhuman agents seems to satisfy the basic motivation to make sense of an otherwise uncertain environment...
  6. ncbi The peculiar longevity of things not so bad
    Daniel T Gilbert
    Harvard University, USA
    Psychol Sci 15:14-9. 2004
    ..These errors of prediction are discussed as instances of a more general phenomenon known as the region-beta paradox...