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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Main Authors: Minkyung, Koo (Author), Algoe, Sara B. (Author), Wilson, Timothy D. (Author), Gilbert, Daniel T. (Author)
Format: Analytics
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] The American Psychological Association ©2008.
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