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  • AFFECTIVE   FORECASTING...OR...THE BIG WOMBASSA: WHAT YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO   GET, AND WHAT YOU DON'T GET, WHEN YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT   [2.13.04]
      A Talk with Daniel Gilbert
  • Gilbert  approaches these issues as a scientist, not a clinician.  He is "interested in learning how people can become  better affective  forecasters,  but  not because  I believe  that  people should become better affective forecasters.  My job as a scientist is to find and explain these  errors and illusions, and it is up to each individual  to decide how they want to use our findings."
  • Gilbert  is well-known for his work on what he and his long-time  collaborator, Tim Wilson of the University of Virginia,  call "affective forecasting", which is "the ability  to predict one's hedonic reactions to future events."
  • Harvard's Social Cognition and Emotion Lab, which is  bringing scientific rigor to the study of subjective  experiences such as satisfaction and happiness.

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• 29 Jan 07
  

  The more similar to you the person is, the more informative their experience will be, of course. But what's amazing is that even the experience of a randomly selected person provides a better basis for forecasting than does your own imagination.

  psychology 2009-05-05

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