Impact bias is the tendency to overestimate the hedonic impact of future events.
For example, consider two groups of people where one group won the lottery, and the other group became paraplegics. Data shows people of both groups are equally happy a year after the event.
A recent study suggests that major life traumas that happened over three months ago had no impact on happiness.
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