recency bias en · NOUN
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(uncountable, usually) A cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
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.
2019 August 26, Ali Martin, “The big question: was Stokes’s hundred the greatest Test innings you’ve seen?”, in The Guardian:
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| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| recency biases | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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de Neuigkeitseffekt (cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones) · fi viimeaikaisuusharha (cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones) · de Rezenzverzerrung (cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones) · es sesgo de reciencia (cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones) · de Neuheitsverzerrung (cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones)