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On Averting Negative Emotion: Remedying the Impact of Shifting Expectations
This paper examines how people anticipate negative emotions when faced with an uncertain outcome and try to manage their expectations. While extant research streams remain equivocal on whether managing expectations always succeeds, this research examines situations in which setting a low expectation...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6256416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30524327 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02121 |
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author | Cho, Cecile K. Cho, Theresa S. |
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description | This paper examines how people anticipate negative emotions when faced with an uncertain outcome and try to manage their expectations. While extant research streams remain equivocal on whether managing expectations always succeeds, this research examines situations in which setting a low expectation can have an adverse emotional impact and suggests ways to alleviate this negative consequence. Using goal setting and a false-feedback paradigm, we show that, although individuals who set low goals to manage expectations can end up feeling more disappointed than those who set high goals (study 1), this negative impact can be avoided when individuals are reminded of their initial goals at feedback, or made aware of inaccuracies in forecasting their future emotion (studies 1 and 2). |
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spelling | pubmed-62564162018-12-06 On Averting Negative Emotion: Remedying the Impact of Shifting Expectations Cho, Cecile K. Cho, Theresa S. Front Psychol Psychology This paper examines how people anticipate negative emotions when faced with an uncertain outcome and try to manage their expectations. While extant research streams remain equivocal on whether managing expectations always succeeds, this research examines situations in which setting a low expectation can have an adverse emotional impact and suggests ways to alleviate this negative consequence. Using goal setting and a false-feedback paradigm, we show that, although individuals who set low goals to manage expectations can end up feeling more disappointed than those who set high goals (study 1), this negative impact can be avoided when individuals are reminded of their initial goals at feedback, or made aware of inaccuracies in forecasting their future emotion (studies 1 and 2). Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6256416/ /pubmed/30524327 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02121 Text en Copyright © 2018 Cho and Cho. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Cho, Cecile K. Cho, Theresa S. On Averting Negative Emotion: Remedying the Impact of Shifting Expectations |
title | On Averting Negative Emotion: Remedying the Impact of Shifting Expectations |
title_full | On Averting Negative Emotion: Remedying the Impact of Shifting Expectations |
title_fullStr | On Averting Negative Emotion: Remedying the Impact of Shifting Expectations |
title_full_unstemmed | On Averting Negative Emotion: Remedying the Impact of Shifting Expectations |
title_short | On Averting Negative Emotion: Remedying the Impact of Shifting Expectations |
title_sort | on averting negative emotion: remedying the impact of shifting expectations |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6256416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30524327 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02121 |
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