Affective Forecasting

Wilson, Timothy D.; Gilbert, Daniel T.

doi:10.1016/s0065-2601(03)01006-2

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“…Despite the influence that affective forecasts can have on major life choices, these predictions often inaccurately portray actual responses (Wilson and Gilbert 2003). Such inaccuracies can lead individuals to make choices based on anticipated future emotional states without considering the full range of options.…”

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Women’s concerns about the emotional impact of awareness of heritable breast cancer risk and its implications for their children

O’Neill¹,

Mays²,

Patenaude

et al. 2014

J Community Genet

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Women tested for mutations in BRCA1/2 genes who have minor-aged children confront difficult decisions about if, when, and how to share information about hereditary cancer risk with their children. These choices are often seemingly influenced by how mothers anticipate the emotional burdens they and their children will experience in response to test results. Here, we investigate the association between maternal cognitions, pretest psychological well-being, and coping style with mothers' anticipated emotional reactions to learning that they are BRCA1/2 mutation carriers (N=205). In a linear regression model adjusted for maternal demographics, stronger tendencies to ruminate about information (B=.14, p=.03), greater psychological strain (B=.14, p<.001), and poorer appraisals of one's ability to cope with genetic test results conveying increased breast cancer risk information (B=−.25, p<.001) were significantly associated with anticipating more negative affect surrounding BRCA1/2 mutation identification in mothers. Our data contribute to the growing awareness of special concerns that mothers have about knowing their BRCA1/2 mutation status and highlight the need for more tailored patient education and counseling resources to improve outcomes among women at risk and their children.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women’s concerns about the emotional impact of awareness of heritable breast cancer risk and its implications for their children

O’Neill¹,

Mays²,

Patenaude

et al. 2014

J Community Genet

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“…12 See the references in Wilson and Gilbert (2003). Apparently, humans do not easily correct for their faulty forecasting through experiential learning.…”

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“…10 There are difficulties in adequately predicting the "liking" of future outcomes for two reasons. First, "affective forecasting" is associated with systematic biases and errors (see Wilson and Gilbert, 2003). The valence of a future episode may be misrepresented (e.g.…”

Section: On the Divergence Between Wanting And Likingmentioning

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“…This constitutes a failure to properly represent an episode cognitively, as opposed to cases of affective misrepresentation. In the latter case, an individual mispredicts that some event will be pleasurable but turns out to be painful, see Wilson and Gilbert (2003).…”

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“…It is easy to think of examples of how one forms selective expectations of events one has not yet experienced, based on information that is not accurate. Consider events such as marriage, childbirth or becoming tenured (often close to wishful or overly optimistic thinking, see Gilbert et al, 2002;Wilson and Gilbert, 2003;Bovi, 2009). A discrepancy between wanting and liking is then likely to follow.…”

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Disentangling motivational and experiential aspects of “utility” – A neuroeconomics perspective

Witt¹,

Binder

2013

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Media Coverage, Forecasted Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Psychological Responses Before and After an Approaching Hurricane

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Key Points Question Do forecasted posttraumatic stress symptoms play a role in the association between media exposure to an approaching hurricane and psychological outcomes after the storm? Findings In this longitudinal online survey of a representative sample of 1478 Florida residents, disaster-related media exposure partially accounted for the association between forecasted posttraumatic stress and psychological outcomes in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma. Meaning Forecasted posttraumatic stress symptoms experienced before a community trauma presage media consumption and subsequent mental health outcomes, with important implications for the media and the public’s mental health.

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Affective Forecasting

Cited by 926 publications

References 129 publications

Women’s concerns about the emotional impact of awareness of heritable breast cancer risk and its implications for their children

Women’s concerns about the emotional impact of awareness of heritable breast cancer risk and its implications for their children

Disentangling motivational and experiential aspects of “utility” – A neuroeconomics perspective

Media Coverage, Forecasted Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Psychological Responses Before and After an Approaching Hurricane

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