Falsification of history

What it is

Rewriting our own or collective past, consciously or not, to fit our present beliefs and self-image.

Related

• Hindsight bias bias
  We rewrite our past judgments to match what happened.
• Motivated reasoning bias
  We prefer a version of the past that flatters us.
• Misinformation effect bias
  Rewriting history is often unconscious, through the changeability of memory.

Appears in

• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly#78: Falsification of history

References

• Wikipedia: Falsification of history en.wikipedia.org
• The 99 thinking errors in Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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