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All Recency and Salience Biases

Biases in which the most recent, most striking or most attended information carries too much weight in judgment. A phenomenon belongs here when its cited article says recent or salient information is favored. Every member sits in the Psychology Atlas as its own page with a definition, cited sources and links to related effects, so the group works as a reading path through Recency and Salience Biases rather than as a claim that the members share one cause. Where scholars disagree about how an effect should be classified, the member page says so.

All Recency and Salience Biases
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Recency bias (Wikipedia)
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Recency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
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Wikipedia: Recency illusion
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The recency illusion is the belief or impression, on the part of someone who has only recently become aware of a long-established phenomenon, that the phenomenon itself must be of recent origin.
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Wikipedia: Attentional Bias
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Attentional bias is the tendency for a person's perception to be affected by selective factors in their attention.
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Salience bias, Wikipedia
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Salience (also called saliency, from Latin saliƍ meaning "leap, spring") is the property by which something stands out.
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