Durability bias: the tendency to overestimate how long our emotional reactions (positive or negative) will last.
• Impact Bias: the tendency to overestimate the emotional impact of a future event both in terms of intensity and its duration
• Misconstrual: errors in predicting emotions because people misrepresent or misimagine the event itself.
Inaccurate Theories: errors in predictions about events due to mistaken predictions about the emotional consequences of those events. Can be due to personal experiences or cultural scripts.
Motivated Distortions: predictions are biased because people want certain outcomes and distort their mental simulations accordingly, in an overly positive or negative way
• Undercorrection: even when you know you may have a bias but not adjusting enough and remaining systematically off in your forecast.
Focalism: the tendency to focus too much on the event in question and neglect others experiences that will also influence future emotions.
Immune Neglect: failing to recognize how effectively the psychological immune system (defense mechanis as rationalization, reappraisal, denial, etc.) will help us recover from negative events.
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