Studies // Cited work
Experienced and remembered pleasure for meals: Duration neglect but minimal peak, end (recency) or primacy effects
Rode, E., Rozin, P., & Durlach, P. (2007). Experienced and remembered pleasure for meals: Duration neglect but minimal peak, end (recency) or primacy effects.
Level D Cross-sectional study doi:10.1016/j.appet.2006.09.006
What this study supports
Supports the claim that memories of meals showed consistent duration neglect but no peak, primacy or recency effects. It qualifies the peak-end rule for one domain of pleasant experience and does not test painful or emotional experiences.
- Who was studied
- Three studies comparing rated and recalled liking for dishes, two with actual meals and one with an imagined meal; the abstract does not state the sample sizes.
- Design
- Cross-sectional study
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
EmpiricalLevel DConfidence MODERATE
In three studies of meals, remembered liking showed consistent duration neglect but no peak, primacy or recency effects, so the peak-end pattern does not hold for every kind of experience.
- Scope
- Memory for pleasant eating experiences.
- Caveat
- One domain of pleasant experience; it does not test painful or emotional experiences.
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