You get similar results with positive experiences: everything else being equal, people prefer the thing that ended on a higher note. Logically, the answer should be the first one-it’s identical to the second, except that it has thirty second less pain at the end. Afterward, they’re asked which of the two experiences they would rather repeat. In the other condition, they’re asked to put their hands in painfully cold water for sixty seconds and then to put their hands in slightly less cold, but still painful water for another thirty seconds. In one condition, people are asked to put their hands in painfully cold water for sixty seconds. The gist of the experiment goes something like this. There’s a famous experiment that looks at people’s perceptions of pain. So I thought I’d take the FIXER blog tour as an opportunity to give readers a look into the way my scientist and writer selves work together when I sit down to write a new book. And the answer is that everything I learn about the power of stories from a scientific standpoint changes the way I write. One of the questions I get a lot as a writer who has a double life as a psychology professor studying the science of books, movies, and television shows is whether or not my work looking at the psychology of stories affects the way I write them. She’s stopping by on the blog tour for her new novel, THE FIXER (published from Bloomsbury USA). We are happy to welcome Jennifer Lynn Barnes to TLT today.
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