Judgments over Time: The Interplay of Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors

by Lawrence J. Sanna (Editor), Edward C. Chang (Editor)

Overview

Time pervades every aspect of people's lives. We are all affected by remnants of our pasts, assessments of our presents, and forecasts of our futures. Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors over time inexorably intertwine and intermingle, determining varied reactions such as affect and emotions, as well as future behaviors. The purpose of this volume is to bring together the diverse theory and research of an outstanding group of scholars whose work relates to peoples judgements over time. To date, much theory and research on temporal variables within psychology has remained somewhat fragmented, isolated, and even provincial--researchers in particular domains are either unaware of or are paying little attention to each other's work. Integrating the theory and research into a single volume will bring about a greater awareness and appreciation of conceptual relations between seemingly disparate topics, define and promote the state of scientific knowledge in these areas, and set the agenda for future work. The volume presents the two main ways of looking at judgments over time: looking at how people's thoughts about the future and the past affect their present states, and looking at the interplay over time among people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190292249
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/16/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of Michigan

Table of Contents

Foreword   George Loewenstein     vii
Contributors     xv
Past as Prologue: An Introduction to Judgments Over Time   Lawrence J. Sanna   Edward C. Chang     3
Thinking About the Future
Abandoning Optimism in Predictions About the Future   James A. Shepperd   Kate Sweeny   Patrick J. Carroll     13
Defensive Pessimism: Positive Past, Anxious Present, and Pessimistic Future   Julie K. Norem   Shannon Smith     34
Pursuing a Path to a More Perfect Future: On Causes, Correlates, and Consequences of Perfectionism   Edward C. Chang   Christina A. Downey   Elizabeth Y. Lin     47
Predicting Feelings Versus Choices   Leaf Van Boven   Joanne Kane     67
Considering Future Consequences: An Integrative Model   Jeff Joireman   Alan Strathman   Daniel Balliet     82
Hope Over Time   C. R. Snyder   Kevin L. Rand   Lorie A. Ritschel     100
Fantasy Realization and the Bridging of Time   Gabriele Oettingen   Jennifer Thorpe     120
Thinking About the Past
Extending the Goal Progress Theory of Rumination: Goal Reevaluation and Growth   Leonard L. Martin   Abraham Tesser     145
The Road Not Taken: Counterfactual Thinking Over Time   Lawrence J. Sanna   Seth E. Carter   Eulena M. Small     163
Explaining the Past, Predicting the Future   Bertram F. Malle   Chuck Tate     182
Looking Backward With an Eye on the Future: Propositions Toward a Theory of Regret Regulation   Marcel Zeelenberg   Rik Pieters     210
Looking Back on What We Knew and When We Knew It: The Role of Time in the Development of Hindsight Bias   Fred B. Bryant   Adam DeHoek     230
How Do You Feel About It Now and When Did It Happen? Judgments of Emotion and Judgments of Time in Autobiographical Memory   John J. Skowronski   W. Richard Walker   John E. Edlund     251
Remembering and Misremembering Emotions   Linda J. Levine   Martin A. Safer   Heather C. Lench     271
Future as Epilogue: Some Conclusions on Judgments Over Time   Lawrence J. Sanna   Edward C. Chang     291
Author Index     299
Subject Index     311