Shoutout to the team, including @elisekalo.bsky.social @katiegreenaway.bsky.social
We found that people accurately predicted when a day, or unpleasant event, would make them feel better or worse than usual, but showed some small errors in the specific rating of their forecasted affect. For time periods, people tended to overestimate both negative and positive affect.
Whereas for unpleasant events, they overestimated how negative, but underestimated how positive, the event would be. Our findings suggest we forecast our emotions differently for time periods vs. events, but tend to be reasonably accurate at forecasting in everyday life.
Big fan of quokkas (the aussie animal) and quokka (the app). Fantastic work by @willngiam.bsky.social in making this free online qualitative coding app.
Amazing opportunity to join the FEEL lab for anyone at the post-doc stage. I spent three years as a postdoc in this lab, and it was the best. Happy to answer any questions!
In work recently out in Affective Science we investigated how accurately people can forecast their emotions in everyday life. Study 1 focused on forecasts for specific time periods (tomorrow, next week). Study 2 focused on forecasts for daily unpleasant events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...