Affective forecasting skills have important implications for decision making. However, recent research suggests that … immune neglect---the tendency to overlook coping strategies that reduce future distress---may lead to affective forecasting …

differences and contextual variables associated with cognitive processing in affective forecasting for an election. Results showed … of individual differences in affective forecasting, and have ramifications for future decision making research. The …

Affective forecasting with respect to two environmental risks (ozone depletion, air pollution) was investigated by … environmental risks differs from personal outcomes with respect to the process of affective forecasting. …

behavioral evidence for a reversal of the affective forecasting phenomenon for feelings of regret. …People tend to overestimate emotional responses to future events. This study examined whether such affective … forecasting errors occur for feelings of regret, as measured by self-report and subsequent decision-making. Some participants …