00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862003083 Buklod 20150504125006.0 g||| | || || ta 160624s2008 xx r |||| u|eng d (iLib)UPBAG-00017029393 BAG rda eng Circulation-Monograph Minkyung, Koo author. It's a wonderful life mentally subtracting positive events improves people's affective states, contrary to their affective forecasts Minkyung Koo, Sara B. Algoe, Timothy D. Wilson, Daniel T. Gilbert. [Place of publication not identified] The American Psychological Association ©2008. 7 leaves illustrations 28 cm Includes bibliographical references. 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 about the ways in which a positive event might never have happened and was surprising or how it became part of their life and was unsurprising. As predicted, people in the former condition reported more positive affective states. In Study 3, college student forecasters failed to anticipate this effect. In Study 4, Internet respondents and university staff members who wrote about how they might never have met their romantic partner were more satisfied with their relationship than were those who wrote about how they did meet their partner. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for the literatures on gratitude induction and counterfactual reasoning. Counterfactuals (Logic). Algoe, Sara B. author. Wilson, Timothy D. author. Gilbert, Daniel T. author. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Vol.95, No.5 (2008) : pages 1217-1224. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN Circulation-Monograph Analytics