recency bias

English

Noun

recency bias (usually uncountable, plural recency biases)

1. A cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
   • 2019 August 26, Ali Martin, “The big question: was Stokes’s hundred the greatest Test innings you’ve seen?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Recency bias once saw Robbie Williams come sixth in a poll of 600,000 to decide the most influential musicians of the last millennium – one place above Mozart – so we should be wary of getting carried away in the moment.

Synonyms

• recency effect

Coordinate terms

• availability bias
• primacy effect
• recentism

Translations

cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones

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• German: Rezenzverzerrung f (rare neologism), Neuheitsverzerrung (rare neologism), Neuigkeitseffekt m
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Further reading

• recency bias on Wikipedia.Wikipedia