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...

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)...

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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!

Elise Kalokerinos@elisekalo.bsky.social · last yr.

We're hiring a postdoc in the FEEL lab at the University of Melbourne. Deadline May 12: get in touch if you have questions! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...

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.

William Ngiam | 严祥全@williamngiam.github.io · 2y ago

Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...

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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.