Browsing Faculty of Psychology by Author "Toppe, Ingrid Kristin"
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Affective Forecasting and Need for Achievement: The Intense Emotion of Mastery Needs and the Features of Focalism
Wester, Maria Ladegård; Toppe, Ingrid Kristin (Master thesis, 2016-12-15)When predicting future emotions, i.e. engaging in affective forecasting, people tend to overestimate the intensity and duration of emotions, termed the impact bias. We investigated the intensity component of affective ...