Zoe has been struggling in her chemistry course and she is concerned that she might fail.Her predictions about how distressed she will be if she fails are likely to
A) exaggerate how badly she will feel.
B) accurately reflect her later feelings.
C) vary greatly from day to day.
D) underestimate how distressed she will actually be.

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When we are in a state of distress, we tend to exaggerate the intensity and duration of negative emotions that we will experience in the future. This is known as affective forecasting. Therefore, it is likely that Zoe's predictions about how distressed she will be if she fails are an exaggeration of how bad she will actually feel.

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