Motivated underpinnings of the impact bias in affective forecasts

Emotion

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1023-1029

  Morewedge, Carey K ^a   Buechel, Eva C ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective forecasting; Happiness; Impact bias; Motivated reasoning; Motivation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTIONAL BIAS; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOTIVATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREJUDICE;

EID: 84890093815     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033797     Document Type: Article

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