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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The American Psychological Association
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