<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article relies largely or entirely on a single source . Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources . (May 2016) </Td> </Tr> <P> In the psychology of affective forecasting, the impact bias, a form of which is the durability bias, is the tendency for people to overestimate the length or the intensity of future emotional states . </P> <P> In Gilbert et al., 1998, there was a conducted study on individuals participating in a job interview . The participants were separated into two groups; the unfair decision condition (where the decision of being hired was left up to a single MBA student with sole authority listening to the interview) and the fair decision condition (where the decision was made by a team of MBA students who had to independently and unanimously decide the fate of the interviewee). Then, certain participants were chosen to forecast how they would feel if they were chosen or not chosen for the job immediately after learning if they had been hired or fired and then they had to predict how they would feel ten minutes after hearing the news . Then following the interview, all participants were given letters notifying them they had not been selected for the job . All participants were then required to fill out a questionnaire that reported their current happiness . Then after waiting ten minutes, the experimenter presented all the participants with another questionnaire that once again asked them to report their current level of happiness . The predictions made by the participants in both the unfair and fair groups were about the same regarding how they would feel immediately after hearing the news as well as ten minutes later . Both groups accurately predicted how they would feel immediately after hearing the news . The study showed that both groups felt much better than they had originally predicted, ten minutes later, demonstrating the impact bias . </P> <P> Explanations for the occurrence of the impact bias include the following: </P>

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