PSYC 3302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Affective Forecasting, Eudaimonia, Anchoring
10 Apr 2016
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Experiencing self is in the moment while remembering self is retrospecive account of something; looking back. Measured by self-report; experiencing measured as they happened, remembered measured by self-report ater the fact. Tendency to overesimate intensity or duraion of emoional reacions. Impact bias: over esimaing intensity or duraion of emoional reacion. Immune neglect and focalism (i. e. you just have one thing on your mind ater someone asks you about it) from last lecture. A few other kinds that don"t neatly it under impact bias: Interacing with stranger vs partner (people assume talking to partner will make them happier, but turns out it tends to be beter talking to a stranger because you have a posiive self-presentaion). Talking to stranger on bus, taxi, subway (you may not think that you want to do this, but it actually turns out to be posiive).
