Dexa/Jordan Harbinger

The Impact Bias

Laurie Santos discusses the impact bias, where we overestimate the duration and intensity of our emotions in response to positive and negative events. Jordan Harbinger shares his personal experiences, showing how our perspective changes with life experience.

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554: Laurie Santos | Practical Lessons from The Happiness Lab
Related Questions
- If we can't forget traumatic events but can modify our emotional response to past events, can the changes to a person's character following an event also be reversed or altered? For example, if someone who was once very positive and engaging returns from war or suffers the loss of a parent/spouse and becomes guarded and distant, how much of our character is malleable? Or can people truly become stuck in their ways?