The "Memory-Experience Gap" for Affect Does Not Reflect a General Memory Bias to Overestimate Past Affect

Retrospective self-reports are widely used to measure affect and well-being. But researchers have long assumed that people overestimate affective experiences in retrospect and that retrospective self-reports are thus biased. This is because of the memory-experience gap, a phenomenon in which retrosp...

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