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Telescoping effect

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).

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Telescoping effect

Nodes25
Edges24
Triples44
Avg. degree1.92
Density0.08
Components1

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Telescoping effect

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related to Development · 10
Telescoping effect → Children's, Many, Older, Participants, People, Psychologists, Since, Telescoping, The, This
related to Minimizing the effect · 7
Telescoping effect → Also, If, In, Neter, One, The, Waksberg
related to Substance use · 7
Telescoping effect → Forward, In, Several, Studies, The, Therefore, United States
related to Real-world example · 6
Telescoping effect → Due, Ferdi Elsas, Marketing, Netherlands, Telescoping, When
related to External links · 4
Telescoping effect → Amsterdam Archived, Human Memory, University, Wayback Machine
related to Models and other explanations · 3
Telescoping effect → Researchers, The, They
is a · 1
Telescoping effect → case of Ferdi Elsas

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telescoping events forward effect people event time model therefore occurs backward use date participants may dates errors memory period reported

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Telescoping effectis acase of Ferdi Elsas0.90text
smokinginstance ofImplicationsSubstance useThe telescoping effect is pertinent for behaviors0.80text
alcohol usageinstance ofImplicationsSubstance useThe telescoping effect is pertinent for behaviors0.80text
especially when they are early onset behaviorsinstance ofImplicationsSubstance useThe telescoping effect is pertinent for behaviors0.80text
smokinginstance ofSubstance useThe telescoping effect is pertinent for behaviors0.80text
alcohol usageinstance ofSubstance useThe telescoping effect is pertinent for behaviors0.80text
especially when they are early onset behaviorsinstance ofSubstance useThe telescoping effect is pertinent for behaviors0.80text
Telescoping effectrelated to DevelopmentPsychologists0.60section
Telescoping effectrelated to DevelopmentTelescoping0.60section
Telescoping effectrelated to DevelopmentOlder0.60section
Telescoping effectrelated to DevelopmentChildren's0.60section
Telescoping effectrelated to DevelopmentThis0.60section

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