Extracting meaning from past affective experiences: The importance of peaks, ends, and specific emotions

By Barbara L. Fredrickson. 2000

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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How Do We Feel on Vacation? A Closer Look at How Emotions Change over the Course of a Trip (2013, methodology): “As an alternative suited to leisure and tourism contexts, Fredrickson (2000) has proposed using a daily questionnaire in which participants rate their strongest experiences of several emotions on a particular day.”
Age differences in forgivingness: The role of future time perspective (2008, background): “Likewise, such attitudes might be supported, in part, by a wish for a positive end or a good “going away” (e.g., Fredrickson, 2000).”
Race, race-based discrimination, and health outcomes among African Americans. (2007, background): “…arousal patterns and biological responses (e.g., lower ambulatory blood pressures) to stress challenges that are consistent with long-term positive physical and mental health outcomes (Fredrickson 2000; Ryff & Singer 2000, 2001; Seeman & McEwen 1996; Taylor & Brown 1994; Taylor et al. 1997).”
Reinterpreting Time in Fit Theory: Crafting and Recrafting Narratives of Fit in Medias Res (2011, background): “The most intense period within a series of experiences tends to be a strong predictor of one’s current reaction, because individuals remember these highs and lows more than neutral or more typical experiences (Fredrickson, 2000; Fredrickson & Kahneman, 1993; Kahneman, Fredrickson, Schreiber, & Redel”
Negative emotions in tourism: a meaningful analysis (2019, background): “As people tend to remember emotional peaks of an experience very well (Fredrickson, 2000), in addition to the notion that positive emotions peak during vacation (Mitas, Yarnal, Adams, & Ram, 2012), this causes tourists to find the anticipation of future trips even more evocative than the…”
Experienced Utility and Objective Happiness: A Moment-Based Approach (2001, background): “…with other psychological criteria of well-being that have been proposed, such as the maintenance of personal goals, social involvement, intense absorption in activities, and a sense that life is meaningful (Argyle, 1999; Cantor and Sanderson, 1999; Csikszentmihalyi, 1990; Fredrickson, 1999).”
The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. (2001, background): “Relaxation techniques are known to reduce blood pressure in hypertensive adults (Blumenthal, 1985; Schneider et al., 1995), and they may do so precisely because they capitalize on the broadening and undoing effects of contentment (Fredrickson, 2000a).”
Emotions in Tourism: Theoretical Designs, Measurements, Analytics, and Interpretations (2020, background): “The existence of “peak-end” effect is independent of duration (Ariely and Loewenstein 2000) and occurs for both pleasant and unpleasant experiences (Fredrickson and Kahneman 1993; Fredrickson 2000).”
Unlocking the mask: a look at the process by which authentic leaders impact follower attitudes and behaviors (2004, positive): “For example, work by Fredrickson and her colleagues (e.g., Fredrickson, 1998, Fredrickson, 2000, Fredrickson, 2001, Fredrickson & Joiner, 2002 and Fredrickson & Levenson, 1998) suggests that positive emotions broaden people’s thought action repertoires, encouraging them to discover novel lines of…”
Retrospective recall of affect in clinically depressed individuals and controls (2009, background): “…(McFarland & Buehler 1998), individual differences (Safer & Keuler, 2002), attributions (Levine & Safer, 2002), accessibility of contextual information (Robinson & Clore, 2002), and particular parameters of the affective experience (Fredrickson, 2000; Fredrickson & Kahenman, 1993; Kahenman, 1999).”
Retrospective and concurrent self-reports: The rationale for real-time data capture (2007, result): “Figure 1 As numerous related studies demonstrated (for a review see Fredrickson, 2000), this surprising result reflects that retrospective assessments follow a peak-and-end heuristic.”
Social Influences on Interest (2016, background): “The peak-and-end rule asserts 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” (Fredrickson, 2000, p. 577).”
Changes in emotions and their interactions with personality in a vacation context (2014, background): “This generalized approach is problematic as emotions have different sets of appraisals; the important distinctions between specific emotions such as joy, interest, contentment, and awe disappear; and specific emotions are known to lead to distinct outcomes (Fredrickson, 2000; Lerner & Keltner, 2000;”