Recency bias is the tendency for people to overweight new information or events, projecting them into the future while ignoring long-term evidence. This bias causes many investors to engage in ...

Do you know what “recency bias” is? If so, when was the last time you had a heart-to-heart conversation with yourself about it? Recency bias isn’t complicated. It is the tendency we have to take ...

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Recency bias occurs when people more prominently recall and emphasise recent events and observations than those in the near or distant past. Consider the following simple example: a passenger peers ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In Experiment 1, seven groups of subjects were tested for final free recall of a series of previously studied lists. Four groups had been ...