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Based on a study of O’Brien (2013) we hypothesize that higher number of good events to be recalled each day may lead to feeling of processing disfluency during the recollection, which may in turn lead to more negative perception of life. Therefore, our hypothesis is that participants that will be trying to recall more good events will report lower life satisfaction than participants that will be trying to recall less good events. We don’t have any reason to expect that there is any particular threshold where the recollection of good things leads to more negative life satisfaction. We will therefore analyze the effect of the manipulation on post-study life satisfaction (as measured by SWLS in the questionnaire immediately after the two weeks of the exercise) with linear regression with pre-study life satisfaction, and linear and quadratic contrasts for the number of good events to be recalled each day as independent variables. Negative parameter for either of the contrasts is consistent with our hypothesis. Other measures will be used for exploratory analyses. <br> <br> O’Brien, E. (2013). Easy to Retrieve but Hard to Believe: Metacognitive Discounting of the Unpleasantly Possible. <i>Psychological science, 24</i>, 844-851.
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