Shoutout to the team, including @elisekalo.bsky.social @katiegreenaway.bsky.social

Whereas for unpleasant events, they overestimated how negative, but underestimated how positive, the event would be. Our findings suggest we forecast our emotions differently for time periods vs. events, but tend to be reasonably accurate at forecasting in everyday life.

We found that people accurately predicted when a day, or unpleasant event, would make them feel better or worse than usual, but showed some small errors in the specific rating of their forecasted affect. For time periods, people tended to overestimate both negative and positive affect.

Affective Forecasting Accuracy in Everyday Life - Affective Science Affective Science - People often predict how they might feel in the future, with varying degrees of accuracy. Such affective forecasts can centre around periods of time (e.g., tomorrow, next week)...

In work recently out in Affective Science we investigated how accurately people can forecast their emotions in everyday life. Study 1 focused on forecasts for specific time periods (tomorrow, next week). Study 2 focused on forecasts for daily unpleasant events. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Welcome!! Don't suppose you're heading down to Adelaide? I'll email you for a catch up around SASP anyway!

Amazing opportunity to join the FEEL lab for anyone at the post-doc stage. I spent three years as a postdoc in this lab, and it was the best. Happy to answer any questions!

Big fan of quokkas (the aussie animal) and quokka (the app). Fantastic work by @willngiam.bsky.social in making this free online qualitative coding app.

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Oh neat! I will check that work out. Yes I think the uncertain waiting context is so fascinating because of that intersection, and then the contrast between the period before where there is still some control vs. after where there's no control but some certainty.

We're currently replicating this study in a sample of medical students amidst end-of-year exams. To disentangle controllability from uncertainty, we are surveying students in the final few days of studying for exams, as well as during the waiting period and once they receive their grades. 📈

While the study this piece is based on was following university students waiting for exams, I think the dos and dont's are useful for any kind of uncertain wait. Here's the full paper, where we show uncertainty seems to mess up some emotion regulation strategies. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Waiting for exam results can be awful. Our research shows how best to manage the stress We found those who accepted their emotions, without judgement, felt more positive during the wait. This strategy also worked after students got their results, regardless or what they were.

Lots of Australian high school and university students are in the thick of waiting for their final grades, so Elise Kalokerinos and I wrote about some dos and dont's for how to cope with this wait. theconversation.com/waiting-for-...

I think we can all agree that waiting for an uncertain outcome is pretty awful (think exam or medical results, job applications, visa outcomes... the list goes on). In these situations, the outcome is uncertain AND you have little to no control over it - all the things we tend to hate.

Such good news!! Congratulations, Simine.