stackyFACTSYou could have the most spectacular two-hour dinner of your life, but if the waiter insults you on the way out, the whole night is ruined. Duration neglect ignores how long you were actually happy, letting the final bitter moments entirely overwrite the rating of the overall experience in your deeply unfair mind.
Keep exploring facts in this topic.
Psychology →STACKY FOR IPHONEKeep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.
You aggressively place a massive bowl of highly addictive candy squarely on your desk, sincerely believing your immense willpower will keep you to just one…
Discover more
You read an incredibly vague psychic prediction from last year, violently cherry-pick the three vague things that happened, and loudly declare it a miracle.…
Discover more
You will spend four hours researching how to make your home network load web pages exactly one microsecond faster. The time-saving bias is our brilliant habit…
Discover moreYes—both people can feel absolutely logical and still be tangled in bias. It happens because the brain is a bit like a treasure hunter that ignores useless…
Discover more
Armed with a scarlet pen, anyone becomes a tyrant. The color red carries such deep cultural associations with failure and correction that holding a crimson…
Discover more
Why do we judge people way more harshly for sending a mean text than for simply ignoring an urgent message?
Discover more