US travel writer Paul Theroux once said: "Travel is glamorous only in retrospect." (Travel only memories is charming). If you've ever care or are experiencing a trip, then you may find a lot of travel time indeed, as Theroux suggests, it is not so good, compared to the memories of people feel flattered. Is it really only travel when memories of the good?
In fact, the "travel only when memories of the good" that argument not very accurate, even though the process will have to travel in the unhappy things happen, but seeing the beauty, eat food, relaxed mood, no matter how these experiences are so travel worthwhile. Therefore, most of the time travel process is indeed wonderful. But, the good memories and compared to many wonderful travel process will less of.
Back in 1997, the University of Washington Mitchell and his colleagues discussed the expected travel before the actual experience and memories of the relationship between the three. They found experimentally that look better than the actual experience, and, later recalled also better than the actual experience. Mitchell believes that we are there "optimism," "optimistic recall" phenomenon and "optimism" means: feeling people expect an event is often more pleasant experience than the actual experience of this event. "Optimistic Memories" means: people recall an event of actual experiences better feeling than this event. "Optimism" often happens in real life, for example, most people would think that the future is full of hope, but in fact their future may not quite that good.
"Optimism" and "positive memories" phenomenon and travel during the negative thinking, distractor, sense of loss and so on, but these reduce the factors travel process pleasant experience is short, their impact after the trip disappeared a. So, for people to travel after the evaluation of the trip to be more active.
In an experiment designed Mitchell, 38 college students participated in the experiment, they will be a trip to California cycling trip. Before traveling, travel and after travel, participants must fill out a questionnaire to investigate their feelings at that time. The results show that a sense of pleasure travel the whole process over time is this:
Can be seen from the figure, overall, pleasure trips before and after the trip than traveling feelings of pleasure. Interestingly, the same before the trip, two days before traveling pleasure to travel less than three weeks before the pleasure, that is, when travel is gradually approaching and coming when we started but there have been some concerns, pleasure decreased sense. In the travel process, due to various uncertain factors, participants undulating pleasure, and to travel, the pleasure of the participants has been improved.
Based on this result, the researchers believe that there is a "positive effect", including travel before the "optimistic expectations" and travel after the "positive memories." But why is there such a phenomenon?
Mitchell summarized several factors. The first one is distracted, the travel process, when you're in the actual environment, there are many things around you need to pay attention to. Due to the complexity of the physical environment, you need to be distracted in a variety of the details. When we focus on various details of the environment around us, we have no way to enjoy the process a good and enjoyable experience will be reduced. However, since these details are unimportant and short-lived, it does not appear in the expectations and memories of being.
The second factor is a sense of disappointment, before traveling, we travel process something to look forward, and envisages a process that is how good, but with the arrival of events, we tend to lower their expectations in order to avoid disappointment caused by the psychological gap sense. Therefore, before the upcoming trip, our positive assessment has begun to decrease. If the actual experience does not as good ideas, we will further experience the strong sense of disappointment, I feel not so happy the travel process. Again, these disappointing to travel after the travel is easy for people to forget, which leads us feel better than recall process.
In addition, travel ideas, sense of control, fatigue, weather, etc. also play a role. In addition, some scholars have noted that people tend to be memory of the past "reconstruction": the transformation and selective recall past experiences. The reason why the good memories, because we have consciously forgotten the negative events and feelings, just to keep a happy experience, so I felt better memories than actual experience.
Many studies have shown us that there is a universal "nostalgic preference" (Nostalgic Preference): past experience things and miss. Carey Morewedge Carnegie Mellon University found that people in the movies and TV shows from different years were evaluated, those more distant years of the program are often able to get people's praise, participants will be mentioned popular many years ago while, at the same time is their favorite programs, these favorite shows impressions affect their views on all the old programs. Morewedge think this is a memory bias (Memory bias) phenomenon. We feel very good memories after the trip is likely under this memory bias nostalgic preference.
Back PaulTheroux sentence, although Theroux meaning of the expression a bit extreme, but also emphasizes the beautiful travel after it is worthy of recognition.
references
Mitchell, TR, Thompson, L., Peterson, E., Cronk, R (1997) .Temporal Adjustments in the Evaluation of Events:. The "Rosy View" .Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 33,421-448.
Morewedge, CK (2013) It Was a Most Unusual Time:. How Memory Bias Engenders Nostalgic Preferences Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26 (4), 319-326 doi:.. 10.1002 / bdm.1767.
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