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 ...

Editor’s note: Read the latest on how the coronavirus is rattling the markets and what investors can do to navigate it. When making investing decisions, it may seem like we have to predict the future.

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 ...

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 ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Recognizing and mitigating cognitive biases is crucial for making informed decisions. Status quo, recency and overconfidence biases are ...

"Recency bias" states that more recent memories come to mind more quickly. But specific ideas and objects that have “stood the test of time” can overcome recency bias. How do we take longevity into ...

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 ...