According to a classic study by Brickman and colleagues (1978) , what do lottery winners and people injured in traumatic accidents have in common?
A) Although the life events had large initial effects on their emotions, over time both groups more or less returned to their baseline happiness levels
B) After the life events, all subsequent experiences paled in comparison and the people stopped being able to feel emotional responses
C) The major life events initially had very little impact on the people's emotions, but as the reality set in over the course of a few months, their well-being changed dramatically
D) Unlike people's affective forecasting for smaller, daily-life events, people make accurate predictions about how extreme life events will impact their emotions
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