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duration
You ignore the length of an experience in your memory.
Duration neglect is a heuristic where the duration of an experience is assigned little weight relative to the emotional 'peak' and 'end' of the event when forming a retrospective evaluation.
The primary experimental finding regarding procedure duration originated in Redelmeier and Kahneman (1996), not 1999.
You judge the quality of a chapter by the climax and the ending, not the number of pages.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Kahneman, 1999
- What the check found
- The definition is directionally correct, but the phenomenon is more complex than 'overlooking' duration, and the source/data attribution is imprecise.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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