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In psychology, savouring is the deliberate attention paid to a positive experience while it happens, in anticipation, or in memory. Researchers study it as one way people can make good feelings stronger and last longer.

Bryant and Veroff, Savoring, 2007

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The psychologists Fred Bryant and Joseph Veroff, who described the idea in detail in their 2007 book Savoring, separate a good event from what we do with it: the event happens to us, savouring is how we attend to it. They describe strategies such as sharing the moment with someone, taking a deliberate 'mental photograph' to remember it, slowing down to notice a taste or a sound, and comparing the moment with harder times. People who savour more tend to report greater wellbeing, but cause and effect are hard to untangle: happier people may simply find it easier to savour.

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Psikolojide tadını çıkarmak (savouring), güzel bir deneyime bilerek dikkat vermek demektir: yaşanırken, beklenirken ya da sonradan hatırlanırken. Araştırmacılar bunu, insanların iyi duyguları güçlendirip uzatmasının yollarından biri olarak inceler.
Bryant ve Veroff, Savoring, 2007

Kavramı 2007'de yayımlanan Savoring adlı kitaplarında ayrıntılı biçimde anlatan psikologlar Fred Bryant ve Joseph Veroff, güzel bir olayı onunla ne yaptığımızdan ayırır: Olay başımıza gelir, tadını çıkarmak ise ona nasıl dikkat verdiğimizdir. Anlattıkları yollar arasında o anı biriyle paylaşmak, hatırlamak için zihinde bilerek bir “fotoğraf” çekmek, bir tadı ya da sesi fark etmek için yavaşlamak ve o anı daha zor zamanlarla karşılaştırmak var. Tadını çıkarmayı daha çok bilen insanlar genellikle kendilerini daha iyi hissettiklerini söylüyor; ama neden ile sonucu ayırmak güç: Zaten mutlu olanlar tadını çıkarmayı daha kolay buluyor olabilir.

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