Recency bias is the tendency for people to overweight new information or events, projecting them into the future while ignoring long-term evidence. This bias causes many investors to engage in ...

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 ...

Every macro crisis in travel produces the same confident obituary, and almost every obituary turns out to be wrong. I have been thinking about recency bias a lot lately — March 2026 feels a lot like ...

Do you know what “recency bias” is? If so, when was the last time you had a heart-to-heart conversation with yourself about it? Recency bias isn’t complicated. It is the tendency we have to take ...

"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 ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so I'm accompanying these with an image that helped inspire the launch of a new MediaPost publication -- the Planning & Buying Insider-- and which I hope ...