Mispredicting and Misremembering: Patients With Renal Failure Overestimate Improvements in Quality of Life After a Kidney Transplant

Health Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 653-658

  Smith, Dylan ^a   Loewenstein, George ^b   Jepson, Christopher ^c   Jankovich, Aleksandra ^d   Feldman, Harold ^c   Ubel, Peter ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

affective forecasting; impact bias; quality of life; renal transplant

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY GRAFT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; QUALITY OF LIFE; TRAVEL;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 54849436628     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012647     Document Type: Article

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