Neuroscientists have revealed that recency bias in working memory naturally leads to central tendency bias, the phenomenon where people's (and animals') judgements are biased towards the average of ...

Neuroscientists have revealed that recency bias in working memory naturally leads to central tendency bias, the phenomenon where people's (and animals') judgements are biased towards the average of ...

Recency bias is the tendency for people to overweight new information or events, projecting them into the future while ignoring long-term evidence. This bias causes many investors to engage in ...

For all the talk about how political and media bias distort people’s perceptions of current events, another kind of bias may have an even greater impact: Recency bias. Put simply, recency bias is the ...

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Recency bias is an underappreciated challenge in data analytics, particularly when historical data is used to draw trends and make predictions. Rolling Stone recently updated its list of the 500 ...

In all my years in this career and in studying markets, I have never seen recency bias as strong as it is today. Recency bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals give more significance to ...

For all the talk about how political and media bias distort people’s perceptions of current events, another kind of bias may have an even greater impact: recency bias. Put simply, recency bias is the ...