| Why the Future is Bigger (and Badder) than the Past | |||
| presented by Eugene Caruso (University of Chicago Graduate School of Business) | |||
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| Thursday, January 29 | link to paper | ||
| 12pm | |||
| Porter 223D | link to Speaker's Site | ||
| Abstract: | |||
| People’s emotional reactions to future events are more extreme than their emotional reactions to equivalent events in the equidistant past (Van Boven & Ashworth, 2007). Because emotion is used as a cue in evaluative judgment, I suggest that there is a systematic tendency for people to judge emotionally-laden events and actors more extremely in the future than in the past. In a series of studies, this temporal asymmetry was found for participants’ judgments of 1) the value of events, 2) the fairness of events, and 3) the morality of actors who commit perceived transgressions. | |||
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