It may be that the effect of judgment J24 (against an expected situation) occurs in a briefer period than the 1-year gap in that study. Across an extended period of time, individuals are likely repeatedly to modify their expectations in the light of new knowledge, so that information recorded 12 months earlier may no longer be of personal relevance. Note also that finding are likely to depend on the particular content of an expectation. An employee moving into a job may have expectations about any of the “vitamins” considered earlier, and the disconfirmation of expectations about some of those may be more personally salient than disconfirmation with respect to others. Relevant too is the level of a feature at which a discrepancy occurs. Contrasts within the zones of deficiency or threat (toward low or high extremes of a “vitamin”; see chap. 4) are more significant than discrepancies within the benign middle range of a job characteristic. Although comparative judgments of this kind can be important for well-being, stronger job-related evidence would drive from separate from separate recordings, of expectations before entry into a position and of current levels of each primary feature.