Empathic forecasting: How do we predict other people's feelings?

Cognition and Emotion

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 978-1001

  Pollmann, Monique M H ^a   Finkenauer, Catrin ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Affective forecasting; Impact bias; Social projection

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 68449090138     PISSN: 02699931     EISSN: 14640600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699930802264895     Document Type: Article

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