Arnaldo: Affective forecasting is predicting how you're going to feel about your decisions.

Sara: When I started college, I thought I was going to be really nervous. I thought I was going to be alienated. Once I started, I realized that everybody was in the same boat, and I was really comforted by that. I ended up having a lot of fun meeting new people, and it was just completely different from what I thought it would be.

Amanda: One time I took a position as a head baker at a restaurant, because I'd already been baking and I really love baking. So I was like, this is going to be so great. Like, I love baking and I love cake decorating. And then I never realized, that like, whenever I was put in that position that you would have to be like, managing other people. You're dealing with, like, customers who are kind of picky, and just like, all those little things that I never thought about before. So afterwards I was able to realize my affective forecasting was way off, because I ended up being super unhappy. Originally I was like, this is going to be the greatest thing ever.

Jason: I was really excited to get out of the Navy. And I thought I was going to be so much happier when I was finally, like, free of being, like, confined to the Navy. And then when I finally got out of the Navy, I realized that I kind of missed the structure, and I wasn't really as happy as I thought I was going to be.

Arnaldo: I went to one of my sister's basketball games for the first time. My mom actually convinced me to go. And I thought I was just going to go there, sit down, not do much. But I actually ended up enjoying it a lot. It was a genuinely fun thing. It was a very good experience.

Amanda: Recently broke up with her boyfriend of four years. And at first I was like, this is going to be the end of the world, whenever I, like, had to break up with him. But actually I feel, like, super happy. Like, I don't know, I just feel really good about myself and like, everything. Like, I'm like, a lot of positive things, like I'm able to see the situation and be like, so many positive things happened, like, from our relationship.

Sara: I had a really big water polo tournament in college, and I truly thought that if we lost this tournament that it would end my love for water polo or sports in general, and that it would truly traumatize my career and the way I felt about sports. Unfortunately we did lose, but it really just brought my team together and helped me cope more with the fact that it was OK to lose, and we could learn from our mistakes.