Affective forecasting

Affective forecasting is the forecasting of one's affect (emotional state) in the future. This kind of prediction is affected by various kinds of cognitive biases, i.e. systematic errors of thought. Famous psychologist Daniel Gilbert of the department of social psychology at Harvard University and other psychologists in the field, such as Timothy Wilson of the University of Virginia, have studied those cognitive biases and given them names like "empathy gap" and "impact bias" and the like.

Affective forecasting is an important concept in psychology, because psychologists try to study what situations in life are important to humans, and how they change their views with time.

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