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Evaluation

Everything on this site about evaluation — each one naming the study behind it.

You confuse your focus with reality.
The 'negativity dominance' principle shows that people give disproportionate weight to singular negative features in a…
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 emotiona…
You do not remember an experience by its total duration.
A 1996 study showed that retrospective evaluations of pain are determined by the peak intensity and the final moment.…
Your memory of an event is not a summary.
A 1993 study proposed that people disproportionately weight peak intensity and the final moment when evaluating experi…