Affect regulation and
affective forecasting.
Wilson, T., Wheatley, T., Meyers, J., et al. (2000) Focalism: A source of durability bias in
affective forecasting.
Mispredicting distress following romantic breakup: Revealing the time course of
the affective forecasting error.
He has published on infidelity, sexual attitudes, and women's sexuality, and is currently investigating
affective forecasting, humor, and transactive memory in close relationships.
Humans are really bad at
affective forecasting — knowing what we want and predicting how we will feel about it once we get it.
Researchers call the ability to predict our future emotional state «
affective forecasting.»
[Gabriela - Alina Sauciuc, et al.,
Affective forecasting in an orangutan: predicting the hedonic outcome of novel juice mixes, in Animal Cognition]