It's a wonderful life mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts

The authors hypothesized that thinking about the absence of a positive event from one?s life would improve affective states more than thinking about the presence of a positive event but that people would not predict this when making affective forecasts. In Studies 1 and 2, college students wrote abo...

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Hauptverfasser: Minkyung, Koo (VerfasserIn), Algoe, Sara B. (VerfasserIn), Wilson, Timothy D. (VerfasserIn), Gilbert, Daniel T. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Analytics
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Place of publication not identified] The American Psychological Association ©2008.
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