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- Title
Loss aversion is an affective forecasting error.
- Authors
Kermer, Deborah A; Driver-Linn, Erin; Wilson, Timothy D; Gilbert, Daniel T
- Abstract
Loss aversion occurs because people expect losses to have greater hedonic impact than gains of equal magnitude. In two studies, people predicted that losses in a gambling task would have greater hedonic impact than would gains of equal magnitude, but when people actually gambled, losses did not have as much of an emotional impact as they predicted. People overestimated the hedonic impact of losses because they underestimated their tendency to rationalize losses and overestimated their tendency to dwell on losses. The asymmetrical impact of losses and gains was thus more a property of affective forecasts than a property of affective experience.
- Publication
Psychological science, 2006, Vol 17, Issue 8, p649
- ISSN
0956-7976
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01760.x