Big thanks to my advisor David Whitney for his necessary guidance and support on this project, and to
@BerkeleyPsych for being an amazing place to do research!

These findings demonstrate robust individual differences in affect overestimation, indicating that some observers may recall affective events more vividly than others. Such differences may reflect a predisposition toward underlying psychopathology. (7/7)

Moreover, the magnitude of overestimation was consistent within individuals, remaining stable across different days and generalizing across different stimuli. (6/7)

In our study, we examined whether overestimation in observers’ recollections of affective events is unique to each individual. We found that affect overestimation occurred when observers made summary judgments about the emotions of people in recently viewed videos. (5/7)

Prior research has shown that ensemble judgments of emotions are prone to overestimation biases, suggesting that people tend to amplify emotional content in memory. (4/7)

This summarization, known as ensemble perception, refers to the visual system’s ability to extract summary statistics from large sets of visual input. (3/7)

Humans rely on recalling past events to make effective future decisions, but this process often requires summarizing large amounts of information. (2/7)

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