001 Miswanting
This is part 1 of a 3 part poster series explaining what is miswant. In psychology, miswant is a type of negative affective forecasting. In this poster, I focus on what do we miswant, and I cover 3 main areas people tend to think will make us happy, but actually don't.
References:
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