title: On emotionally intelligent time travel: individual differences in affective forecasting ability.
abstract: In two studies, the authors examined whether people who are high in emotional intelligence (EI) make more accurate forecasts about their own affective responses to future events. All participants completed a performance measure of EI (the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test) as well as a self-report measure of EI. Affective forecasting ability was assessed using a longitudinal design in which participants were asked to predict how they would feel and report their actual feelings following three events in three different domains: politics and academics (Study 1) and sports (Study 2). Across these events, individual differences in forecasting ability were predicted by participants' scores on the performance measure, but not the self-report measure, of EI; high-EI individuals exhibited greater affective forecasting accuracy. Emotion Management, a subcomponent of EI, emerged as the strongest predictor of forecasting ability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. edunn@psych.ubc.ca
authors.forename: Elizabeth W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Dunn
authors.forename: Marc A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Brackett
authors.forename: Claire
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ashton-James
authors.forename: Elyse
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Schneiderman
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Salovey
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D001076:Aptitude; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013998:Time Perception