When Asked to Predict Their Emotional Reaction to Being Injured

When asked to predict their emotional reaction to being injured in a car accident, most people know that they would be upset but tend to overestimate for how long they would be upset. Research suggests that this error may occur because ____.

A) when imagining their reaction, people focus too much attention on the possible injury and do not consider other (happy) events that are likely to happen in their lives
B) bad events are stronger than good events
C) of the affect-as-information hypothesis
D) people do not take catharsis into account

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