Talk:Psychological immune system

I think most if not all of this article needs to be deleted. It claims there is a connection between affective forecasting and defensive mechanisms like dissonance reduction, but seems to make the opposite case: that exaggerated predictions of negative events make people feel worse than they otherwise would. The references are confusing and incomplete. The term "psychological immune system" seems to exist in scholarly literature, but as a catch-all for a number of different biases and effects, which already have their own articles. Maybe the article should just list those? I'd like to delete the sections on "Affective Forecasting" and "The Durability Bias". MartinPoulter (talk) 18:02, 27 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Herman Kagan book

A notice to other editors: the Herman Kagan book titled "The psychological immune system" is not suitable as a source for this article because it is a self-published source. MartinPoulter (talk) 13:34, 29 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Intent to merge this with Affective forecasting

Since "psychological immune system" isn't a widely-used term but is mostly limited to some remarks by Dan Gilbert, there isn't much prospect of developing this into a rich article. Meanwhile, the affective forecasting article is quite bare. Since the term "psychological immune system" was coined in the context of affective forecasting it makes sense to merge into that article, thus making one somewhat useful article out of two stubs. MartinPoulter (talk) 12:13, 16 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]