Why You Probably Can’t Predict Your Own Happiness

The video discusses affective forecasting, the tendency to mispredict emotional reactions to future events. It highlights common errors like impact bias and focusing illusion, which skew our emotional predictions. Strategies to improve these predictions include considering context and using surrogates. The video emphasizes that our emotional responses are often less intense than anticipated, offering comfort in uncertain situations.

Explain how people's predictions about emotional responses can be inaccurate after a breakup.

What strategies can improve our predictions about future experiences?