Dispositional happiness and affective forecasting: General or specific effect?

Dispositional happiness and affective forecasting : General or specific effect ?

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Maximizing Wealth and Happiness: Improving Investor Decisions Through Improved Affective Forecasting

Given the economic crisis of the past few years and the plummeting value of individuals " retirement funds, the issue of consumer investment and savings has become crucial to consumer welfare. People have been forced to remain in jobs longer to attain their savings goals and seeing quarterly statements that show no growth has become the norm. With the economy finally showing signs of turning, i...

Dispositional happiness and college student GPA: Unpacking a null relation

We examined the mechanisms that underlie the null relation between dispositional happiness and college grade point average (GPA) by testing the hypothesis that dispositional happiness has positive and negative indirect links to GPA that offset each other. The sample consisted of 317 first-year students. Using structural equation modeling, we found that dispositional happiness exerted a positive...

Dispositional achievement motives matter for autonomous versus controlled motivation and behavioral or affective educational outcomes

Divine Hiddenness and Affective Forecasting

In this paper I argue that J. L. Schellenberg’s Divine Hiddenness Argument is committed to a problematic implication that is weakened by research in cognitive psychology on affective forecasting. Schellenberg’s notion of a nonresistant nonbeliever logically implies that for any such person, it is true that she would form the proper belief in God if provided with what he calls “probabilifying” e...