Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

Gilbert, Daniel T.; Pinel, Elizabeth C.; Wilson, Timothy D.; Blumberg, Stephen J.; Wheatley, Thalia

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.75.3.617

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“…It is important to note that although these results imply that interpersonal similarity increases the weight of information that presumably is less predictive of choice (i.e., secondary aspects of a decision) relative to information that should be the most predictive of choice (i.e., primary aspects of a decision), we do not argue that interpersonal similarity leads to less accurate judgments. This is because accuracy does not always follow from considering high level, general features (e.g., Gilbert, Pinel, Wilson, Blumberg, & Wheatley, 1998).…”

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Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension: Implications for perception of others’ actions

Liviatan

Trope

Liberman

2008

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Building on the assumption that interpersonal similarity is a form of social distance, the current research examines the manner in which similarity influences the representation and judgment of others' actions. On the basis of a construal level approach, we hypothesized that greater levels of similarity would increase the relative weight of subordinate and secondary features of information in judgments of others' actions. The results of four experiments showed that compared to corresponding judgments of a dissimilar target, participants exposed to a similar target person identified that person's actions in relatively more subordinate means-related rather than superordinate ends-related terms (Experiment 1), perceived his or her actions to be determined more by feasibility and less by desirability concerns (Experiment 3), and gave more weight to secondary aspects in judgments of the target's decisions (Experiment 2) and performance (Experiment 4). Implications for the study of interpersonal similarity, as well as social distance in general, are discussed. Keywords interpersonal similarity; social distance; construal level theory; social judgment; mental representations Imagine a close friend giving a job talk. Now imagine a stranger giving the same job talk. What type of representation would you construct for this action? Would you represent it in terms of an abstract superordinate goal (for instance, communicating one's research ideas) or rather bring to mind the subordinate, concrete means by which to achieve the goal (such as presenting power point slides)? And would your representation include primary and central aspects related to this action (for instance, the research question) or more secondary information (such as the slides' background design)?

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Section: Information Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension: Implications for perception of others’ actions

Liviatan

Trope

Liberman

2008

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

525

364

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“…A sizable literature on affective forecasting (Gilbert et al, 1998;Kahneman et al, 1999;Liberman and Trope, 1998) has shown that people typically overestimate how long positive events will make them feel good and how long negative events will make them feel bad. A number of accounts for these and related affective forecasting errors have focused on the content that is considered when making these forecasts, but little has been said about the possibility that thoughts about feelings and actual feelings might be processed by distinct neurocognitive systems, such that the system involved in forecasting might be incapable of representing certain aspects of actual experience (Kahneman et al, 1993).…”

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Principles, processes, and puzzles of social cognition: An introduction for the special issue on social cognitive neuroscience

Lieberman

2005

NeuroImage

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This article introduces the special issue of NeuroImage focused on social cognitive neuroscience. Social psychology has a rich history of making sense of the often paradoxical aspects of social cognition and the social world. This article reviews the principles, processes, and puzzles of social cognition and behavior that have been examined by social psychologists for decades. Five principles of social cognition and behavior are reviewed including: (1) the power of the situation over behavior, (2) blindness for situational influences, (3) social perception and self-perception are constructive processes, (4) blindness for the constructed nature of social and self-perception, and (5) self-processes are social. Four processes of social cognition are reviewed including: (1) cognitive architecture; (2) automaticity and control; (3) motivated reasoning; and (4) accessibility, frames, and expectations. Finally, five areas of social cognition that contain enduring puzzles are described including (1) the self, (2) attitudes, (3) reflective social cognition, (4) automatic social cognition, and (5) social motives. In several of the areas of study reviewed, cognitive neuroscience is well positioned to make important contributions to these research traditions either by allowing for new tests of hypotheses or by allowing for unobtrusive measurement of social cognitive processes. D

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“…Affective forecasting (Gilbert et al 1998), or the process of predicting how one will feel following future events, has been shown to have powerful effects on health decision-making (Elwyn and Miron-Shatz 2010;Halpern and Arnold 2008). Despite the influence that affective forecasts can have on major life choices, these predictions often inaccurately portray actual responses (Wilson and Gilbert 2003).…”

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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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Immune neglect: A source of durability bias in affective forecasting.

Cited by 1,181 publications

References 58 publications

Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension: Implications for perception of others’ actions

Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension: Implications for perception of others’ actions

Principles, processes, and puzzles of social cognition: An introduction for the special issue on social cognitive neuroscience

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

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