- Title
- Feelings of the future
- Creator
- Miloyan, Beyon; Suddendorf, Thomas
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/163298
- Identifier
- vital:12833
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2015.01.008
- Identifier
- ISBN:1364-6613
- Abstract
- Affective forecasting refers to the capacity to predict future feelings. Humans have been found to exhibit systematic affective forecasting biases that involve overestimation of the intensity and duration of future feelings. Although recent research has elucidated the proximate mechanisms underlying our ability to predict future feelings, explanations concerning the potential adaptive significance of these biases have attracted little attention. Here we consider the function of affective forecasts as signals of biological value, drivers of goal pursuit, and tools for eliciting collaboration. Although affective forecasting biases can have significant costs, for instance in terms of one's pursuit of happiness, they may ultimately serve adaptive functions.
- Relation
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences Vol. 19, no. 4 (2015), p. 196-200
- Rights
- © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 17 Psychology and Cognitive Sciences; 11 Medical and Health Sciences; 08 Information and Computing Sciences; Adaptive function; Affective forecast; Episodic foresight; Impact bias; Motivation; Prospection
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