Term ID: T0020

Affective Forecasting

/affective-forecasting/
Predicting future emotional reactions, often inaccurately.
Example: “She overestimated how sad she’d feel after the breakup—a common forecasting error.”

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Reference: Gilbert & Wilson (2000)