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On Emotionally Intelligent Time Travel: Individual Differences in Affective Forecasting AbilityUniversity of British Columbia
Yale University University of New South Wales
Duke University
Yale University In two studies, the authors examined whether people who are high in emotional intelligence (EI) make more accurate forecasts about their own affective responses to future events. All participants completed a performance measure of EI (the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test) as well as a self-report measure of EI. Affective forecasting ability was assessed using a longitudinal design in which participants were asked to predict how they would feel and report their actual feelings following three events in three different domains: politics and academics (Study 1) and sports (Study 2). Across these events, individual differences in forecasting ability were predicted by participants' scores on the performance measure, but not the self-report measure, of EI; high-EI individuals exhibited greater affective forecasting accuracy. Emotion Management, a subcomponent of EI, emerged as the strongest predictor of forecasting ability.
Key Words: affective forecasting • emotional intelligence • self-knowledge • emotion regulation • individual differences
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 1,
85-93 (2007) This article has been cited by other articles:
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