Differential partitioning of extended experiences
Ariely and Zauberman's paper concerns something the peak-end literature usually leaves implicit: where one experience ends and the next begins. An extended episode has no natural boundaries, and how a person divides it up changes how it is remembered, because each part gets its own peak and its own ending. The consequence is practical for anyone designing an experience. The same sequence of events, presented as one long episode or as several shorter ones, produces different overall evaluations, which means the division itself is a design decision rather than a neutral fact. This vault cites it whenever the peak-end rule is applied to something longer than a single procedure. Written without an abstract, from the title and the neighbouring work on remembered experience cited here.
Ariely and Zauberman's paper concerns something the peak-end literature usually leaves implicit: where one experience ends and the next begins. An extended episode has no natural boundaries, and how a person divides it up changes how it is remembered, because each part gets its own peak and its own ending. The consequence is practical for anyone designing an experience. The same sequence of events, presented as one long episode or as several shorter ones, produces different overall evaluations, which means the division itself is a design decision rather than a neutral fact. This vault cites it whenever the peak-end rule is applied to something longer than a single procedure. Written without an abstract, from the title and the neighbouring work on remembered experience cited here.
Written from the the paper's title and the neighbouring work on remembered experience, cited here.
What our sources record
Reproduced as it was written when this source was checked, figures and all.
Distinguishes cohesive from partitioned experiences and names multi-day vacations, plays with an interval, courses and concerts as partitioned.
Where we use it
- Why You Remember the End of a Holiday and Not the Middle, Why We Come Back
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The source
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0749-5978(03)00061-X00061-X)
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(03)00061-X