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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! RAND Corporation Strategy Director Jennifer Kavanaugh discussed the ideas of cognitive bias and examples such as motivated reasoning, recency bias ...

Last week, I introduced the idea of “dumb” in investing: the tendency for very smart people to do very dumb things with their portfolios. We looked at how emotions can override a well-thought-out plan ...

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In a previous column, I wrote about recency bias, which is the tendency to place too much weight on the latest performance trends while giving short shrift to other factors, such as fundamentals, ...

Recency bias in strategic planning is dangerous. All of us tend to use our short term memories to understand what’s going on and what might happen in the future. This means that we focus too heavily ...

More than once, frustrated historians and/or Hall-of-Fame voters have complained of “recency bias” as an explanation for a failed Canton candidacy, a charge that sometimes is minimized by skeptics.