We could all learn something from little kids who demand the same experience over and over again.
Christopher Ingraham/The Washington Post By Christopher Ingraham Christopher Ingraham Reporter covering all things data Email Bio Follow April 13 If you’ve spent any time around little kids, you’ve probably noticed they have an almost limitless capacity to repeat activities they enjoy: getting tossed in the air by an obliging adult, say, or watching the same movie over and over and over again.
Many previous studies have shown that, when it comes to leisure time, people have a general tendency to seek out novel experiences. In the language of social science, O’Brien said, “Filling leisure with novel experiences indeed disrupts adaptation and promotes discovery." At the conclusion of the activities, participants were split into two groups. The first, which O’Brien calls the predictors, were asked to imagine how much they’d enjoy doing the exact same activity again, on a scale of one to seven . The second group, the “experiencers,” repeated their activities: The movie-watchers saw the same movie, the museum crowd returned to the same exhibit, and the game-players played again. When they were done, they rated their enjoyment on the same one-to-seven scale.
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