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This is the ninth article in the Behavioral Finance and Macroeconomics series, exploring the effect behavior has on markets and the economy as a whole and how advisors who understand this relationship ...

Recency bias is an underappreciated challenge in data analytics, particularly when historical data is used to draw trends and make predictions. Rolling Stone recently updated its list of the 500 ...

Imagine watching an NBA basketball game, and Lebron James is having a terrific game. He has just made six shots in a row. The game is close, and Lebron is clearly lining up to take another jump shot.

"Shark Week" is an annual block of TV programming on Discovery. It runs July 23 to July 29 this year. Perhaps the most famous shark — the fictional great white from the 1975 Steven Spielberg summer ...

Neuroscientists have revealed that recency bias in working memory naturally leads to central tendency bias, the phenomenon where people's (and animals') judgements are biased towards the average of ...

I am writing this opinion piece from the perspective of a jilted college football fan. I have three degrees from Florida State University. This weekend the College Football Playoff selection committee ...

For all the talk about how political and media bias distort people’s perceptions of current events, another kind of bias may have an even greater impact: Recency bias. Put simply, recency bias is the ...

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Imagine watching an NBA basketball game, and Lebron James is having a terrific game. He has just made six shots in a row. The game is close, and Lebron is clearly lining up to take another jump shot.