The video below is a great example of a kid who is severely plagued by the impact bias (and lots of pain medicine). If you have never seen david goes to the dentist then you should defiantly watch! This poor kid goes to the dentist to have a tooth removed and on his way home he begins to describe how he is feeling funny. The poor thing goes through an emotional roller coaster and exclaims "Is this gonna last forever!?". In this situation david can not get over his impact bias, specifically he can not accurately predict the duration or amount of time that he will "feel funny" and confused (Wilson, Gilbert; 2003, 2005). When in actuality the pain medicines that are making him feel so funny and confused are only going to last a few more hours.
Im sure we have all been fooled by our own impact biases, and the most recent one for me is that I have recently realized that I do not feel as strongly about high school and the people I went to high school as I did lets say a year ago, or even after graduation. I thought I would always look back and say well it was fun and I learned a lot but the people sucked and they will always suck. I was caught in the illusion of my own impact bias in that I thought that I would always feel so strongly about those people and those events when in actuality only two-ish years later I am so over it. I look back at the good times I had and all the learning I was able to do and instead of looking back in anguish I look back in either an apathetic or happy way. I have learned my lesson though I will not predict that I will always look back in these ways, because I could easily run into one of those idiots again and quickly resort back to my old feelings towards them.
And because I figured out to post videos I am going to post one more that is not related to impact bias but is to my high school... This is a guy who went to my high school (not one of the idiots) and he recently put this music video out and its incredible so yall should check it out!
References
Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2005). Affective Forecasting: Knowing What to Want. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14(3), 131-134. doi:10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00355.x
No comments:
Post a Comment