recency bias

recency bias (usually uncountable, plural recency biases)

1. (psychology) A cognitive bias that favors recent events over historic ones.
   • 2019 August 26, Ali Martin, “The big question: was Stokes’s hundred the greatest Test innings you’ve seen?”, in The Guardian‎:

     Recency bias once saw Robbie Williams come sixth in a poll of 600,000 to decide the most influential musicians of the last millennium – one place above Mozart – so we should be wary of getting carried away in the moment.

• recency effect

• availability bias
• primacy bias
• recentism

• recency bias on Wikipedia.Wikipedia