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Evaluation

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

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…