Gestalt characteristics of experiences: the defining features of summarized events

By Dan Ariely, Ziv Carmon. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Affective Responses to Images In Print Advertising: Affect Integration in a Simultaneous Presentation Context (2008, background): “Furthermore, Ariely and Carmon (2000) found that the pain experienced at the end of a bone marrow transplant was particularly predictive of the overall evaluation of the pain.”
Sources of Bias in Retrospective Decision Making: Experimental Evidence on Voters’ Limitations in Controlling Incumbents (2012, background): “These biases seem endemic in human behavior and are not limited to politics (see, e.g, Ariely and Carmon 2000; Redelmeier and Kahneman 1996; Varey and Kahneman 1992).”
Value from gestalt: how sequences of competitive actions create advantage for firms in nascent markets (2010, background): “…affect the perception and evaluation of unfolding sequences of events has found applications in a variety of areas, including judgments of personal experiences (Ariely and Carmon, 2000), performance appraisals (Reb and Cropanzano, 2007), and valuing and spending money (Mishra et al., 2006).”
Experience Marketing: Concepts, Frameworks and Consumer Insights (2011, background): “Specifically, overall evaluations seem to be most strongly influenced by momentary experiences at the most intense (i.e., peak) moments and final moments (Ariely and Carmon, 2000; Fredrickson and Kahneman, 1993; Varey and Kahneman, 1992).”
When Employees Are Out of Step with Coworkers: How Job Satisfaction Trajectory and Dispersion Influence Individual- and Unit-Level Voluntary Turnover (2012, background): “In contrast, in the presence of a job satisfaction increase, the person will tend to develop a positive perspective on continuing employment (Ariely & Carmon, 2000).”
Substituting the End for the Whole: Why Voters Respond Primarily to the Election‐Year Economy (2014, background): “…what decision makers have been shown to do in many other environments where retrospective assessments are involved: they simplify a complicated evaluation problem by substituting end conditions for overall conditions (Varey and Kahneman 1992; Redelmeier and Kahneman 1996; Ariely and Carmon 2000).”
Hedonic adaptation and the role of decision and experience utility in public policy (2008, background): “People may, in fact, care about “gestalt” characteristics of life not captured by momentary utility ratings (Ariely and Carmon, 2000).”