Re: recency and emotion
There was a post about this phenomenon with a poll a while back. I was one of only very few that voted I would "rather" have a day where I was up a bunch then lost it back instead of a day where I was down a bunch then made it back.
The overwhelming majority of people feel the same way that you do, and the response I remember reading is that people love stories and it is a much better story to be down and then heroically come back from the depths. meh, recency sounds like it holds more weight.
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