Biased recall

Memories are distorted by the peak experience of any episode – whether good or bad – and what it felt like when the experience stopped. Thus, memory will rank a short and relatively painless operation which ends on a painful note as worse than an operation which ends on a painless note, even if it lasted longer and was overall more painful.

1. Memory defects
2. Distortion

1. Recovered memories

1. Unhappiness
2. Paramnesia and confabulation
3. Misjudgement
4. Limited decision-making context
5. Historically determined concerns
6. Failure to profit from patterns of history
7. Biased literature

1. Limited individual attention span
2. Evidence decay

1. Showing bias
2. Distorting past events
3. Clarifying past events
4. Being truthful

1. Unreliability
2. Incorrectness
3. Fallacy
4. Distortion
5. Bias