Psych Basics

Affective Forecasting

Affective forecasting is predicting how you will feel in the future. As it turns out, we're terrible at it. We're not good judges of what will make us happy, and we have trouble seeing through the filter of the now. Our feelings in the present blind us to how we'll make decisions in the future when we might be feeling differently.

Predicting Future Happiness

Happiness: A Fortune-Telling Divide

East does not meet West when it comes to happiness.

by Carlin Flora

Forecasting the Future

Predict your happiness.

by Susan Fiske

Money and Happiness

Research shows that income has a positive relationship with happiness.

by Christopher Peterson, Ph.D. in The Good Life

Surprised Again? The Anchoring Bias of Investors

Fixed on a specific price? It affects your investing.

by John Nofsinger, Ph.D. in Mind on My Money

Affective forecasting, intentions and why we procrastinate

Happiness now, pay later - Affective forecasting & procrastination

by Timothy A. Pychyl, Ph.D. in Don't Delay

See Also

Affective Forecasting Tests

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