Telescoping effect
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In psychology
and cognitive science
, the telescoping effect is people's tendency to perceive recent events as being more remote than they are, and to perceive distant events as being more recent than they are. More specifically, the former is known as backward telescoping, and the latter as forward telescoping. Between backward and forward telescoping there is a point where events are just as likely to be displaced backward as forward in time.
The original work is usually attributed to a 1964 article by Neter and Waksberg in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Psychology
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and cognitive science
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
, the telescoping effect is people's tendency to perceive recent events as being more remote than they are, and to perceive distant events as being more recent than they are. More specifically, the former is known as backward telescoping, and the latter as forward telescoping. Between backward and forward telescoping there is a point where events are just as likely to be displaced backward as forward in time.
The original work is usually attributed to a 1964 article by Neter and Waksberg in the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
External links
- Human Memory - University of Amsterdam website with test that measures the telescoping effect