Researchers tracked football fans and found they tended to overestimate how long the result would affect their mood, though prompting them to consider other upcoming events softened the forecast

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You hear the buzzer. Your team has won, and you are already living a little way into the future, certain this feeling will carry you through tomorrow and the day after. The win has set the weather for the week, and you can feel the glow of it stretching out ahead like a long warm [...] The post Researchers tracked football fans and found they tended to overestimate how long the result would affect their mood, though prompting them to consider other upcoming events softened the forecast appeared first on Space Daily .