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George Loewenstein on Hot and Cold Affect

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The Universality of the Empathy Gap

In a study, people were asked to predict whether hikers short of food or drink would be most affected by hunger or thirst. They got very different responses when they answered the same questions before or after exercise. The biggest mistakes that people make is that they mispredict how they would feel in this affective state.

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