PSYCH 3520 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Affective Forecasting, Impact Bias, Planning Fallacy

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3520
• Professor: Mckibben

Document Summary

Concept of giving priority to one"s own goals over group goals and defining one"s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications. Giving priority to the goals of one"s group and defining one"s identity accordingly. Asian, african, and central and south american cultures. Explaining our behavior: the way you describe your behavior differs from the way others describe or explain your behavior. Ex: your reason as to why you go to class vs the professor"s reason was to why you go to class. Planning fallacy- tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task. Predicting our feelings- we tend to overestimate our emotions after an emotional or difficult situation such as a breakup or death of a family member, but studies show that it"s not as devastating as we think it is. Studies of affective forecasting reveal people have the greatest difficulty predicting the intensity and the duration of their future emotions.