Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Levine, Linda J
• Lench, Heather C
• Karnaze, Melissa M
• Carlson, Steven J

Titel

Bias in predicted and remembered emotion

Ist Teil von

• Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2018-02, Vol.19, p.73-77

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •The episodic memory system supports predicting and remembering emotional experience.•Similar patterns of accuracy and bias characterize predicted and remembered emotion.•Intensity is represented more accurately than overall emotional experience.•The direction of bias depends on how attention and event appraisals shift over time.•Phenomenological experience differs markedly for predicted and remembered emotion. Predicting and remembering emotion both rely on the episodic memory system which is constructive and subject to bias. In keeping with the common cognitive processes underlying prospection and retrospection, people show similar strengths and weaknesses when they predict how they will feel in the future and remember how they felt in the past. Recent findings reveal that people predict and remember the intensity of emotion more accurately than their overall or general emotional response, and whether emotion is overestimated or underestimated depends on how people's attention to, and appraisals about, events change over time. People's phenomenological experience differs markedly when they are predicting versus remembering emotion, however. Phenomenological cues, such as intensity and autonoetic experience, make predicted emotion a more compelling guide for decisions, even when inaccurate.