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A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind by Killingsworth, Matthew A., Gilbert, Daniel T.

“…We developed a smartphone technology to sample people's ongoing thoughts, feelings, and actions and found (i) that people are thinking about what is not…”
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Comment on "Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science" by Gilbert, Daniel T, King, Gary, Pettigrew, Stephen, Wilson, Timothy D

“…A paper from the Open Science Collaboration (Research Articles, 28 August 2015, aac4716) attempting to replicate 100 published studies suggests that the…”
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Prospection: Experiencing the Future by Gilbert, Daniel T, Wilson, Timothy D

“…All animals can predict the hedonic consequences of events they've experienced before. But humans can predict the hedonic consequences of events they've never…”
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The End of History Illusion by Quoidbach, Jordi, Gilbert, Daniel T., Wilson, Timothy D.

“…We measured the personalities, values, and preferences of more than 19,000 people who ranged in age from 18 to 68 and asked them to report how much they had…”
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Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind by Wilson, Timothy D., Reinhard, David A., Westgate, Erin C., Gilbert, Daniel T., Ellerbeck, Nicole, Hahn, Cheryl, Brown, Casey L., Shaked, Adi

“…In 11 studies, we found that participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think, that they…”
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Explaining Away: A Model of Affective Adaptation by Wilson, Timothy D., Gilbert, Daniel T.

“…We propose a model of affective adaptation, the processes whereby affective responses weaken after one or more exposures to emotional events. Drawing on…”
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The Feeling of Uncertainty Intensifies Affective Reactions by Bar-Anan, Yoav, Wilson, Timothy D, Gilbert, Daniel T

“…Uncertainty has been defined as a lack of information about an event and has been characterized as an aversive state that people are motivated to reduce. The…”
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Why the brain talks to itself: sources of error in emotional prediction by Gilbert, Daniel T., Wilson, Timothy D.

“…) of future events, which produce affective reactions (…”
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Loss Aversion Is an Affective Forecasting Error by Kermer, Deborah A., Driver-Linn, Erin, Wilson, Timothy D., Gilbert, Daniel T.

“…Loss aversion occurs because people expect losses to have greater hedonic impact than gains of equal magnitude. In two studies, people predicted that losses in…”
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Decisions and Revisions: The Affective Forecasting of Changeable Outcomes by Gilbert, Daniel T, Ebert, Jane E. J

“…People prefer to make changeable decisions rather than unchangeable decisions because they do not realize that they may be more satisfied with the latter…”
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Surprising Power of Neighborly Advice by Gilbert, Daniel T, Killingsworth, Matthew A, Eyre, Rebecca N, Wilson, Timothy D

“…Two experiments revealed that (i) people can more accurately predict their affective reactions to a future event when they know how a neighbor in their social…”
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Intranasal Oxytocin Modulates Decision-Making Depending on Outcome Predictability-A Randomized Within-Subject Controlled Trial in Healthy Males by Zebhauser, Paul Theo, Macchia, Ana, Gold, Edward, Salcedo, Stephanie, Burum, Bethany, Alonso-Alonso, Miguel, Gilbert, Daniel T, Pascual-Leone, Alvaro, Brem, Anna-Katharine

“…Oxytocin (OT) has been extensively studied with regard to its socio-cognitive and -behavioral effects. Its potential as a therapeutic agent is being discussed…”
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Focalism: A Source of Durability Bias in Affective Forecasting by Wilson, Timothy D, Wheatley, Thalia, Meyers, Jonathan M, Gilbert, Daniel T, Axsom, Danny

“…The durability bias, the tendency to overpredict the duration of affective reactions to future events, may be due in part to focalism, whereby people focus too…”
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The illusion of moral decline by Mastroianni, Adam M., Gilbert, Daniel T.

“…Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining 1 , 2 . In a series of studies using both archival and original data ( n  =…”
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The Future Is Now: Temporal Correction in Affective Forecasting by Gilbert, Daniel T., Gill, Michael J., Wilson, Timothy D.

“…Decisions are often based on predictions of the hedonic consequences of future events. We suggest that people make such predictions by imagining the event…”
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Speak Up! Mistaken Beliefs About How Much to Talk in Conversations by Hirschi, Quinn, Wilson, Timothy D., Gilbert, Daniel T.

“…We hypothesized that people would exhibit a reticence bias, the incorrect belief that they will be more likable if they speak less than half the time in a…”
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Quantity versus uncertainty: When winning one prize is better than winning two by Kurtz, Jaime L., Wilson, Timothy D., Gilbert, Daniel T.

“…We predicted that a state of uncertainty would prolong a positive mood, but that people would not anticipate this when making affective forecasts. In Study 1,…”
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Do Amnesics Exhibit Cognitive Dissonance Reduction? The Role of Explicit Memory and Attention in Attitude Change by Lieberman, Matthew D., Ochsner, Kevin N., Gilbert, Daniel T., Schacter, Daniel L.

“…In two studies, we investigated the roles of explicit memory and attentional resources in the process of behavior-induced attitude change. Although most…”
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Location, Location, Location: The Misprediction of Satisfaction in Housing Lotteries by Dunn, Elizabeth W., Wilson, Timothy D., Gilbert, Daniel T.

“…People tend to overestimate the emotional consequences of future life events, exhibiting an impact bias. The authors replicated the impact bias in a real-life…”
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Forecasting and Backcasting: Predicting the Impact of Events on the Future by Ebert, Jane E. J., Gilbert, Daniel T., Wilson, Timothy D.

“…In many choices they make—for example, choosing between a movie and a play or deciding whether to attend a sports game shortly before a birthday…”
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