Affective Forecasts for the Experience Itself: An Investigation of the Impact Bias during an Affective Experience

People base many decisions on affective forecasts, predictions about their emotional reactions to future events. They often display an impact bias, overestimating the intensity and duration of their emotional reactions to such events. One cause of the impact bias is focalism, the tendency to underestimate the extent to which other events will influence our thoughts and feelings. Another is people's failure to anticipate how quickly they will make sense of things that happen to them in a way that speeds emotional recovery. This is especially true when predicting reactions to negative events: People fail to anticipate how quickly they will cope psychologically with such events in ways that speed their recovery from them. Several implications are discussed, such as the tendency for people to attribute their unexpected resilience to external agents.

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Motivated underpinnings of the impact bias in affective forecasts.

Emotion ◽

10.1037/a0033797 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 1023-1029 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

Carey K. Morewedge ◽

Eva C. Buechel

Keyword(s):

Impact Bias ◽

The Impact ◽

Affective Forecasts

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Supplemental Material for Like Schrödinger’s Cat, the Impact Bias Is Both Dead and Alive: Reply to Wilson and Gilbert (2013)

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ◽

10.1037/a0034340.supp ◽

2013 ◽

Keyword(s):

Impact Bias ◽

The Impact

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Like Schrödinger’s cat, the impact bias is both dead and alive: Reply to Wilson and Gilbert (2013).

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology ◽

10.1037/a0034340 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 105 (5) ◽

pp. 749-756 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Linda J. Levine ◽

Heather C. Lench ◽

Robin L. Kaplan ◽

Martin A. Safer

Keyword(s):

Impact Bias ◽

The Impact

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Croquages de langue en formation d’enseignants

Voix Plurielles ◽

10.26522/vp.v11i1.919 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 75-88

Author(s):

Annemarie Dinvaut

Keyword(s):

College Of Education ◽

Teaching Skills ◽

Language Awareness ◽

Nous Proposons ◽

Affective Experience ◽

Intercultural Skills ◽

Cultural Plurality ◽

The Impact ◽

Cette Question

Le sensoriel et l’expression plastique sont-ils des outils de formation pertinents pour aller à la rencontre de l’altérité et de la diversité linguistique et culturelle ? Nous nous proposons de répondre à cette question en analysant des productions d’étudiants : ceux-ci rendent compte de leur fréquentation d’une langue par une création plastique qui privilégie les aspects sensoriels de cette expérience. Ce double processus les amène à une réflexion métalinguistique et à une posture d’accueil du plurilinguisme. We sketch our languages and develop teaching skills Abstract: Are sensorial and plastic activities appropriate tools to develop language awareness and intercultural skills, in a college of education? To answer this question, we ask students to express their sensorial and affective experience of a language they choose: scrutinizing their productions enables us to see the impact of this activity, regarding their metalinguistic reflection and their receptiveness to linguistic and cultural plurality.

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Radar Rainfall Estimation in Morocco: Quality Control and Gauge Adjustment

Hydrology ◽

10.3390/hydrology6020041 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 41 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Zahra Sahlaoui ◽

Soumia Mordane

Keyword(s):

Positive Impact ◽

Radar Reflectivity ◽

Radar Rainfall ◽

Rain Gauges ◽

Impact Bias ◽

African Rainfall ◽

Precipitation Structure ◽

Radar Rainfall Estimate ◽

The Impact

This study focused on investigating the impact of gauge adjustment on the rainfall estimate from a Moroccan C-band weather radar located in Khouribga City. The radar reflectivity underwent a quality check before deployment to retrieve the rainfall amount. The process consisted of clutter identification and the correction of signal attenuation. Thereafter, the radar reflectivity was converted into rainfall depth over a period of 24 h. An assessment of the accuracy of the radar rainfall estimate over the study area showed an overall underestimation when compared to the rain gauges (bias = −6.4 mm and root mean square error [RMSE] = 8.9 mm). The adjustment model was applied, and a validation of the adjusted rainfall versus the rain gauges showed a positive impact (bias = −0.96 mm and RMSE = 6.7 mm). The case study conducted on December 16, 2016 revealed substantial improvements in the precipitation structure and intensity with reference to African Rainfall Climatology version 2 (ARC2) precipitations.

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‘To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was’: Beckett's Female Subject Formation and the Problem of Becoming

Journal of Beckett Studies ◽

10.3366/jobs.2021.0328 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 45-63

Author(s):

Rina Kim

Keyword(s):

Female Subject ◽

Subject Formation ◽

Affective Experience ◽

Female Agency ◽

Authentic Self ◽

Experience Of Time ◽

Changing Patterns ◽

Perception Of Self ◽

The Impact ◽

Male Subjects

The call for a new notion of personhood that goes beyond one's cognitive functions and a new account of human agency has gained interest with the impact of contemporary research in cognitive science over the last few decades. This paper aims to show that examining Beckett's female subject formation allows us to map out not only our changed perception of self, but also the changing patterns of reception of his works over time in relation to the issue of female agency. While Beckett's male subjects in his early novels are often preoccupied with their own journey to find a solipsistic world in their quest for their authentic self, his drama concerns his characters’ affective experience, namely how they live to go on. This paper, thus, will show that what Beckett perceives as gender difference plays a crucial role in his portrayal of personhood that is closely interconnected with other people and external artefacts, as well as his theatricality as a mode of perception that brackets moments of action and our affective experience of time.

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