Anticipating One's Troubles: The Costs and Benefits of Negative Expectations

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 277-281

  Golub, Sarit A ^a   Gilbert, Daniel T ^b   Wilson, Timothy D ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

affective forecasting; expectations; pessimism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; MALE; PESSIMISM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 65249155914     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014716     Document Type: Article

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