Investigating the tole of time in affective forecasting: Temporal influences on forecasting accuracy

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1152-1166

  Finkenauer, Catrin ^a   Gallucci, Marcello ^b   Van Dijk, Wilco W ^a   Pollmann, Monique ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Affective experiences; Affective forecasting; Temporal biases

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DRIVER LICENCE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVER EXAMINATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547239444     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207303021     Document Type: Article

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