What kind of chocolate is best? The last you taste, says a new study
Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 08:06
in Psychology & Sociology
(Medical Xpress) -- Like to save the best for last? Heres good news: If its the last, youll like it the best. That is the finding of a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Endings affect us in lots of ways, and one is this positivity effect, says University of Michigan psychologist Ed OBrien, who conducted the study with colleague Phoebe C. Ellsworth. Graduation from college, the last kiss before going off to war: we experience these lasts with deep pleasure and affectionin fact, more than we may have felt about those places or people the day before. Even long painful experiences that end pleasantly are rated more highly than short ones ending painfully.