Rosy retrospection

What it is

Remembering past events as more positive than they felt at the time.

Related

• Hindsight bias bias
  Both rewrite the past: hindsight edits our predictions, rosy retrospection edits our feelings.
• Peak-end rule bias
  We remember the peaks and the end, which are often the best parts.

References

• Wikipedia: Rosy retrospection en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: List of cognitive biases en.wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia: Cognitive bias codex en.wikipedia.org

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