The Impact Bias in Affective Forecasting Refers to the Phenomenon

question 119

Multiple Choice

The impact bias in affective forecasting refers to the phenomenon in which

• A) people tend to overestimate the strength and duration of their emotional reactions to events.
• B) people are generally accurate predictors of how they will feel about future events.
• C) people tend to underestimate how happy they will be several months after winning the lottery.
• D) voters predicted that they would be much happier one month after an election if the candidate for whom they voted won.

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