When moments of anxiety hit—in all the hardly ideal, often unexpected ways they often do—it's helpful to have a mental checklist of at least a few coping mechanisms to help get through it, like deep ...

Psychological and media research shows that people tend to recall items at the beginning and at the end of a list better than they recall items in the middle. This is known as the serial position ...

The common expression of the recency effect, “Save the best for last,” says that the latter parts of a message will stick in the memory and be ready for later use. The importance of that effect in ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In Experiment 1, seven groups of subjects were tested for final free recall of a series of previously studied lists. Four groups had been ...

When you buy a mutual fund based on its recent performance, you could be succumbing to the "recency effect." That's the tendency when making a decision to give recent events more weight than things ...