Blind spots in the search for happiness: Implicit attitudes and nonverbal leakage predict affective forecasting errors

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 628-634

  McConnell, Allen R ^a   Dunn, Elizabeth W ^b   Austin, Sara N ^a   Rawn, Catherine D ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affective forecasting; Attitudes; Judgment and decision making; The self

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952817016     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.12.018     Document Type: Article

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