Elizabeth Rode, Paul Rozin, and Paula Durlach measured the remembered pleasure for meals. It didn’t matter how long the meal lasted. They called this “duration neglect.” To quote the article: The existence of duration neglect implies that, with respect to memories of a meal, small portions of a highly favored dish will have roughly the same memorial effect as large portions.

Elizabeth Rode, Paul Rozin, and Paula Durlach measured the remembered pleasure for meals. It didn’t matter how long the meal lasted. They called this “duration neglect.” To quote the article:

The existence of duration neglect implies that, with respect to memories of a meal, small portions of a highly favored dish will have roughly the same memorial effect as large portions.

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I am a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and author of The Shangri-La Diet. My expertise is in self-experimentation; one of my papers about that is Self-experimentation as a source of new ideas:Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight. I also have a personal blog here . Seth Roberts Read more