The Myth of "I'll Be Happy When I'm X Pounds" ft. Laurie Santos
Food, We Need To Talk
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The Impact Bias
We're worse at predicting negative events than we are positive events. We make affective forecasts about bad things, especially for our bodies. And time and again, when these bad things actually happen to people, they say, yeah, you know, it was bad. But I got through it. You get used to the bad stuff too.
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