, . When someone
does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.”
Anonymous
How many times it
has happened You favour someone
99 times and couldn’t help one time , s/he will always remember that one time
when you didn’t help , that one time was most crucial for them and by not
helping them they feel betrayed why? Because when it comes to good deeds,
humans always start new page everyday , so all your good deeds gone to the
drain with passing of each day. Each day is new start, new beginning and it
doesn’t matter anymore how much you helped them in the past
Other way
round It happens with
us and how many times
we have judged our
friends or loved
ones branded them as bad
person conveniently forgetting all the goods they
have done to
us earlier ?
Does one one
last bad
experience can be a yard
stick to size them
and brand them
as bad ? why
it happens ?
This is being explained
as Recency effect
recency effect can be defined as a
psychological phenomenon, wherein we tend to give greater importance to events
or developments that have occurred recently than those that have taken place in
the distant past and act on the basis of the former. In other words, we ignore
a long-term trend in favour of the most recent one,...
This bias is a part of the serial position effect,
a term coined by German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus. According to this
effect, the position of a particular item in a given list determines the
likelihood of it being recalled. We tend to remember either the first items in
the list (primacy effect) or the most recent ones (recency effect). Then
how does ir relate
to human behaviour ?
I don’t want
to dwell on this
subject and go
deep into this as
I am not
a qualified psychology student
but would like to share
my observation that usually
occur in our
lives ,
Let me narrate
a experiment that
was conducted on group
of people , say 10 people in
different age group
Well they
were all treated with
best tasty food from top
restaurant . After the meal
they were all treated with ice cream ,,,yes here is
the twist .Ice
cream was sprinkled with
salt . and were
forced upon the
guests to eat . After this they
were all asked to
rate the food
on 0 to
10 scale . You know
what happened ? Every one rated
below 3 for the food
forgetting the earlier
taste of best
food served but remembered
salty icecream
which was served at the
end .
!! This is Recency
effect where we tend to give greater importance to events
or developments that have occurred recently [
bad ice cream ] than those that have taken place earlier
[ best
food] and act on the basis of the
former. In other words, we we conviently
forget the good food
but judge only
with the last process
that had occurred
that is bad
ice cream .
How
to avoid the recency effect?
A simple way of overcoming the recency effect is to keep a record in order and remember all the good things they have done earlier and to keep the big picture in mind. . Think about the good things that has occurred earlier with the person and judge a person holistically rather then one isolated last incident . we need to take a decision based on complete facts rather than being influenced by recent developments.
A simple way of overcoming the recency effect is to keep a record in order and remember all the good things they have done earlier and to keep the big picture in mind. . Think about the good things that has occurred earlier with the person and judge a person holistically rather then one isolated last incident . we need to take a decision based on complete facts rather than being influenced by recent developments.
