It's a Wonderful Life: Mentally Subtracting Positive Events Improves People's Affective States, Contrary to Their Affective Forecasts

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1217-1224

  Koo, Minkyung ^a   Algoe, Sara B ^b   Wilson, Timothy D ^a   Gilbert, Daniel T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; affective forecasting; counterfactual reasoning; gratitude; positive affect

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LIFE EVENT; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SATISFACTION;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 56349158588     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013316     Document Type: Article

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