Buehler, R., McFarland, C., Spyropoulos, V., &Lam, K. C. (2007). Motivated prediction of future feelings: Effects of negative mood and mood orientation on affective forecasts.
This article examines the role of motivational factors in affective forecasting. The primary hypothesis was that people predict positive emotional reactions to future events when they are motivated to enhance their current feelings. Three experiments manipulated participants' moods (negative vs. neutral) and orientation toward their moods (reflective vs. ruminative) and then assessed the positivity of their affective predictions for future events. As hypothesized, when participants ...