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Telescoping effect

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In cognitive psychology, the telescoping effect (or telescoping bias) refers to the temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are. The former is known as backward telescoping or time expansion, and the latter as is known as forward telescoping.

Telescoping effect - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Temporal displacement of an event In cognitive psychology , the telescoping effect (or telescoping bias ) is a phenomenon in which people underestimate the recency of recent events (backward telescoping), and overestimate the recency of distant events (forward telescoping). [ 1 ] The approximate time at which events switch from backward to forward telescoping is three years, with events occurring three years in the past being equally likely to be reported with forward telescoping bias as with backward telescop

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