On emotional innumeracy: Predicted and actual affective responses to grand-scale tragedies

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 692-698

  Dunn, Elizabeth W ^a   Ashton James, Claire ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Affective forecasting; Cognitive experiential self theory; Scope sensitivity; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549123197     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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