Word: predictableness
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...team of Harvard researchers, led by Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, conducted two experiments in which Harvard undergraduates were asked to predict their reaction to events given either information about the event itself or surrogate information about the experience of another undergraduate who had experienced the event...
...experimental setup involving speed dating, 33 undergraduate females were asked to predict how much they would enjoy a 5-minute date with a undergraduate male. Half of the group was given the man’s pictures and profiles, while others only the reaction of the women who had just “dated?...
...peer and used to classify the writer's personality as Type A, B or C - A being positive, B neutral and C being decidedly negative. Type Cs were, for example, said to "sacrifice their beliefs because they seek contentment rather than challenge." Students were also asked to predict how they would feel if their peer judged them to be Type C - some participants were asked to predict based on written descriptions of all three personality types; others were not given those descriptions, but shown only a reaction report by a fellow student who previously received a Type C evaluation. Once...
...material or not. "Most Westeners would reject the notion outright that someone else would pick your marital partner more accurately than you can. It's not clear to me that's true," Gilbert says, conceding that in the case of marriage, the only person who could really help you predict the suitability of a life partner is someone who's already been married to that person...
...maybe not. "That doesn't leave room for changes in character. I'm quite different with my wife than [I was with] my first wife," Gilbert says. "My first wife wouldn't be able to predict very well what my current wife would experience...