Empathic forecasting: How do we predict other people's feelings?

Pollmann, Monique; Finkenauer, Catrin

doi:10.1080/02699930802264895

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“…Collectivistic oriented cultures, such as the Portuguese (Hofstede, 2001), show more emotion-focused coping and joint DC than cultures with a more individualistic orientation (Vedes et al, 2016). Possible mechanisms of the positive effect of perceived similarity in relationships include feeling understood and validated and signaling that the partner understands the self and that he/she is not alone (e.g., Pollmann & Finkenauer, 2009). In this study, however, we could not examine which mechanisms accounted for the relationship between shared appraisals and marital adjustment, which would be an important research question to explore in future studies.…”

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Parents’ Positive Interpersonal Coping After a Child’s Death

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Despite the challenging context of grieving for the death of a child, evidence shows that it is possible for parents to manage and preserve their relationship. The aim of this study was to examine parents' perceptions of positive interpersonal coping processes that helped their relationship after the death of their child. Individual semistructured interviews with 17 bereaved maritally committed parents were conducted. The interview guide included questions covering themes such as parents' coping together, relationship strengths and mutual support.Data were analyzed through constructivist grounded theory methods. Three main themes were identified: search for meaning (reframing of partners' different coping processes and the changes/difficulties in the relationship, and development of shared beliefs); communication with the partner (direct and indirect feedback, and mutual learning); and care-in-relation (caring for the partner and the relationship). Dyad-level interventions should aim at promoting mutual empathy, development of shared appraisals, and the identification and consideration of each other's boundaries.

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Section: Developing Shared Appraisalsmentioning

confidence: 48%

Parents’ Positive Interpersonal Coping After a Child’s Death

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“…These possibilities of entrenched beliefs are particularly likely because, in general, right-leaners anchor particularly heavily on their own beliefs as a way of imposing their desired additional structure on the world (Stern and West 2016), a social projection that typically exacerbates insensitivity to new information (Amit, Roccas, and Meidan 2010; Pollmann and Finkenauer 2009). 2 Whereas other groups are likelier to converge to consensus beliefs, then, intrinisic cognitive and psychological factors may leave right-leaners confident in their own, distinctive analysis.…”

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Rightward Leanings and Nonstandard Party-Position Perceptions

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2020

Political Research Quarterly

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Some individuals defy the consensus as to parties’ relative ideological positions, asserting that a party is more left-leaning than its rivals even when most observers have the opposite view. Such discrepancies undercut spatial models of politics. Rightward leaners’ tendency to use different, more self-anchored, bases for assessing ideology may make them especially likely to dissent in this way, as might their attention to distinct issues. Results from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems confirm that those on the political right are likelier to reverse typical left-right orderings, even on right-leaning or major parties. Evidence from the Dutch Parliamentary Election Study further shows that right-leaners’ nonstandard ordering extends to parties’ specific issue-positions—particularly, notably, on issues of higher salience to the left. Standard models of politics may accordingly apply less well to those who identify as being on the political right.

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“…clinicians for patients). However, other work suggests that people predict that health conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy and haemophilia will more adversely impact their own lives than the lives of others ; and yet other work suggests that impact biases for self and other predictions are of similar magnitude. On the whole this research suggests that the impact bias is, at the very least, operative when making forecasts about the impact of aversive events on others' lives; clinicians may be subject to such empathic forecasting biases when considering how others will respond to the outcomes of predictive tests.…”

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The future in clinical genetics: affective forecasting biases in patient and clinician decision making

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When clinicians facilitate and patients make decisions about predictive genetic testing, they often base their choices on the predicted emotional consequences of positive and negative test results. Research from psychology and decision making suggests that such predictions may often be biased. Work on affective forecasting-predicting one's future emotional states-shows that people tend to overestimate the impact of (especially negative) emotional events on their well-being; a phenomenon termed the impact bias. In this article, we review the causes and consequences of the impact bias in medical decision making, with a focus on applying such findings to predictive testing in clinical genetics. We also recommend strategies for reducing the impact bias and consider the ethical and practical implications of doing so.

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Empathic forecasting: How do we predict other people's feelings?

Cited by 33 publications

References 41 publications

Parents’ Positive Interpersonal Coping After a Child’s Death

Parents’ Positive Interpersonal Coping After a Child’s Death

Rightward Leanings and Nonstandard Party-Position Perceptions

The future in clinical genetics: affective forecasting biases in patient and clinician decision making

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