PSYC 2084 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: When Prophecy Fails, Leon Festinger, Affective Forecasting
16 Mar 2019
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When prophecy fails - the seekers: dorothy martin aka marian keech - automatic writing from planet clarion, automatic writing - not thinking, someone is writing through them. Self affirmation for dissonance reduction: when a person focuses on one or more of their good qualities to lesson dissonant sting caused by "bad" behavior, robinhood: steal from the rich, but i"m giving to the poor, disappointment. Impact bias: tendency to overestimate the intensity and duration of one"s emotional reactions to future negative events. "immune neglect" - neglecting our own immune system that is fighting off the negative emotions: 6 studies foudnt eh people overestimate their levels of unhappiness after breakups, negative personality feedback, rejection, resilience, happens mostly subconsciously. If you ever went out for a team and not go it. "maybe i wasn"t meant for that team, like it"s better that i don"t play with them, i wouldn"t have liked it"
