Happiness, Anxiety, and Stress Measurements
Until genomic researchers can isolate the genes for happiness, anxiety, and stress, these dispositions are usually hard to predict.
Miscalculations of Love's Benefits and Costs
People who are in love are usually blind. They are unable to accurately judge the benefits and costs of being in love.
Selectiveness Misperception
The Model assumes people are smart enough to calculate simple statistics and probability. However, heuristics, or mental short cuts, may distort perception. Examples of distorted selectiveness perception are:
- Fashion model photographers may believe that the probability of meeting physically attractive people is higher than normal.
- College students may overestimate the percentage of singles in the population because they are surrounded by an abundance of eligible singles.
- Shy people or people with inadequate social exposure, may not have a big enough population sample size resulting in distorted selectiveness perception.
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