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How timing, memory and where we look quietly distort what we notice and believe.
Recency bias is the tendency to give the most recent events disproportionate weight in judgements and predictions —…
Cognitive bias · updated 29 May 2026
The primacy effect is the tendency to remember and be most influenced by the first items in a sequence. First…
Cognitive bias · updated 29 May 2026
The peak-end rule is the finding that we judge an experience largely by how it felt at its most intense moment (the…
Cognitive bias · updated 29 May 2026
The Zeigarnik effect is the tendency to remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed ones. Open…
Cognitive bias · updated 29 May 2026
The mere-exposure effect is the tendency to like things simply because they’re familiar. Repeated exposure — to a…
Cognitive bias · updated 29 May 2026
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