Multiple Choice
Carlos often thinks about his future and looks forward to graduating, getting married, and having children. He feels strongly that these events will make him a very happy man and he will feel a deep sense of contentment and satisfaction. According to the research by Wilson and Gilbert (2003) that has found that people often mispredict how they will feel at some point in the future, Carlos' beliefs about his future happiness
A) will be accurate because he knows himself and his feelings very well.
B) have no relationship to how he will actually feel in the future.
C) will be more accurate than his friend's predictions of how happy these events would make Carlos.
D) will not be accurate because we are vulnerable to the impact bias.
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