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In a classic experiment, shoppers picked a 'best' pair from four identical stockings, and most chose the rightmost one — a known position bias. Asked why, almost no one mentioned p…
— Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy D. Wilson, Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes
Daniel Gilbert and Timothy Wilson found that people are reliably bad at predicting how long an emotional event, good or bad, will affect them, a bias they called durability bias. W…
— Timothy D. Wilson and Daniel T. Gilbert, Affective Forecasting