Feelings about expectation-reality gaps depend on feelings about the expectation: If people like what's expected, negative changes matter more (#lossAversion), but if people dislike what's expected, positive changes matter more (#gainSeeking).

Mellers and Yin found this pattern in risky choices as well: https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231190393

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