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Psychology. The unseen mindTimothy D Wilson
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA
Science 321:1046-7. 2008- The pleasures of uncertainty: prolonging positive moods in ways people do not anticipateTimothy D Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 88:5-21. 2005..Forecasters seemed unaware of this paradox; they overwhelmingly preferred to be in the certain conditions and tended to predict that they would be in better moods in these conditions... - The surprising power of neighborly adviceDaniel T Gilbert
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 323:1617-9. 2009..Both participants and independent judges mistakenly believed that predictions based on information about the event would be more accurate than predictions based on information about how another person had reacted to it... - It's a wonderful life: mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecastsMinkyung Koo
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1217-24. 2008..The authors discuss the implications of these findings for the literatures on gratitude induction and counterfactual reasoning... - Why the brain talks to itself: sources of error in emotional predictionDaniel T Gilbert
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1335-41. 2009..Research shows that this process leads to systematic errors of prediction. We review evidence indicating that these errors can be traced to five sources... - "He loves me, he loves me not . . . ": uncertainty can increase romantic attractionErin R Whitchurch
Department of Psychology, P O Box 400400, 102 Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Psychol Sci 22:172-5. 2011..Uncertain participants reported thinking about the men the most, and this increased their attraction toward the men... - The paradoxical consequences of revengeKevin M Carlsmith
Department of Psychology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:1316-24. 2008.... - Anticipating one's troubles: the costs and benefits of negative expectationsSarit A Golub
Department of Psychology, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
Emotion 9:277-81. 2009..These results suggest that anticipating one's troubles may be a poor strategy for maximizing positive affect... - Loss aversion is an affective forecasting errorDeborah A Kermer
University of Virginia, USA
Psychol Sci 17:649-53. 2006..The asymmetrical impact of losses and gains was thus more a property of affective forecasts than a property of affective experience... - The least likely of times: how remembering the past biases forecasts of the futureCarey 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... - Expect the unexpected: failure to anticipate similarities leads to an intergroup forecasting errorRobyn K Mallett
Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60626 5385, USA
J Pers Soc Psychol 94:265-77. 2008..Regardless of focus, Whites expected to have pleasant intragroup interactions, and they were accurate (Study 4)... - When to fire: anticipatory versus postevent reconstrual of uncontrollable eventsTimothy D Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:340-51. 2004..Forecasters predicted that loosing would make them feel worse than it did and selected a higher dose of a drug to cope with an anticipated loss than did people who actually lost... - Self-knowledge: its limits, value, and potential for improvementTimothy D Wilson
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904 4400, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 55:493-518. 2004..It is not always advantageous to hold self-perceptions that correspond perfectly with reality, but increasing awareness of nonconscious motives and personality is generally beneficial... - The feeling of uncertainty intensifies affective reactionsYoav Bar-Anan
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Emotion 9:123-7. 2009..As predicted, the subjective feeling of uncertainty intensified people's affective reactions to the film clips... - Prospection: experiencing the futureDaniel T Gilbert
Department of Psychology, 33 Kirkland Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Science 317:1351-4. 2007..Scientists are beginning to understand how the brain simulates future events, how it uses those simulations to predict an event's hedonic consequences, and why these predictions so often go awry... - Looking forward to looking backward: the misprediction of regretDaniel 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... - Location, location, location: the misprediction of satisfaction in housing lotteriesElizabeth W Dunn
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, 102 Gilmer Hall, PO Box 400400, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4400, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 29:1421-32. 2003.... - Behavior. The power of social psychological interventionsTimothy D Wilson
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4400, USA
Science 313:1251-2. 2006 - Mispredicting the hedonic benefits of segregated gainsCarey 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... - The peculiar longevity of things not so badDaniel 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...