Extracting meaning from past affective experiences: The importance of peaks, ends, and specific emotions
Extracting meaning from past affective experiences: The importance of peaks, ends, and specific emotions
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DOI：
10.1080/026999300402808
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发表时间：
2000-07-01
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2.6
通讯作者：
Fredrickson, BL
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作者：
Fredrickson, BL
本文回顾了现有的实证研究的高峰和结束的规则。这条规则指出，人们对过去情感事件的整体评价可以很好地预测在两个时刻经历的情感：峰值情感强度和结束的时刻。峰终法则的一个后果是，情感发作的持续时间在很大程度上被忽视了。支持峰末法则的证据是有力的，但有条件的。概述了在这一新兴研究领域未来工作的新方向。特别是，应该评估与特定时刻和特定情绪相关的个人意义。据推测，时刻丰富的自我相关信息将主导人们的全球评价过去的情感事件。文章最后讨论了衡量和优化客观幸福的方法。
This article reviews existing empirical research on the peak-and-end rule. This rule states that people's global evaluations of past affective episodes can be well predicted by the affect experienced during just two moments: the moment of peak affect intensity and the ending. One consequence of the peak-and-end rule is that the duration of affective episodes is largely neglected. Evidence supporting the peak-and-end rule is robust, but qualified. New directions for future work in this emerging area of study are outlined. In particular, the personal meanings associated with specific moments and with specific emotions should be assessed. It is hypothesised that moments rich with self-relevant information will dominate people's global evaluations of past affective episodes. The article concludes with a discussion of ways to measure and optimise objective happiness.