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Walsh, Emma; Ayton, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2009
A proposed remedy for biased affective forecasts is to base judgments on the actual feelings of people (surrogates) currently experiencing the event, rather than using imagination which conjures an inaccurate vision of the future. Gilbert et al. (2009) forced people to use surrogate reports by withholding all event information, resulting in better…
Descriptors: Imagination, Recall (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Prediction