amount of pleasure or pain you experienced.

快乐或痛苦累积起来
Rather, your memory is highly skewed to peaks and then to endings.

相反你非常倾向于记住高潮和结果
And you could imagine this.

想象一下
In the first case, "A," You leave and say,

第一个案例A中你走后说
"Oh, God, that was terrible. Oh."

"哦天哪太疼了哦"
"B," You leave and say, "Oh, that was mildly painful.

B 你走后说 "哦没那么疼
There was something terrible

中间很受不了
in the middle there but it ended okay, mild pain."

但后来还好没那么疼"
It turns out, in general, endings matter a lot.

这证明总体来说结果很重要
Kahneman did his research with both in a laboratory

卡内曼与他同实验室的人一起研究
where you could make give people mild pain

他们给人们轻一点的痛感
by getting them to stick their hand in freezing cold water

让他们把手持续放在冰水里