Recency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones, giving greater importance to whatever happened most recently, such as a jury weighing a lawyer's closing statement more heavily than earlier testimony. It is related to, but distinct from, the recency effect studied in memory research and from the recency illusion, a separate phenomenon involving beliefs about the origin of words.
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Core ClaimRecency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones. A type of memory bias, recency bias gives "greater importance to the most recent event", such as the final lawyer's closing argument a jury hears before being dismissed to deliberate. 1 Classification
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Recency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones. A type of memory bias, recency bias gives "greater importance to the most recent event", such as the final lawyer's closing argument a jury hears before being dismissed to deliberate.
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Recency bias is a cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones, giving greater importance to whatever happened most recently, such as a jury weighing a lawyer's closing statement more heavily than earlier testimony.
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Wikipedia article 'Recency bias' is filed under Category:Memory biases.
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