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This stems from something called the Zeigarnik Effect, which is the tendency to remember incomplete tasks instead of completed ones.
Then there is the very natural tendency to remember our successes and minimize — or rationalize away — our failures.
More excruciating still is the author's tendency to remember and relate every compliment he received, including some going back nearly 20 years.
The authors cite Russia's defeat by Japan in 1905 to claim that Russian foreign policy is coloured by what they imply is a peculiarly Russian "tendency to remember past debacles as humiliations".
He intuitively grasped "loss aversion" (our tendency to give more weight to the threat of losses than to potential gains), and perpetually maximized "nostalgia bias" (our tendency to remember the past as being better than it was).
There is a tendency to remember Jennifer Capriati's sullen mug shot or how Oksana Baiul cut a tree path with her Mercedes after fame, attention and money overwhelmed the vulnerable teens.
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People have a tendency to not remember this, so make sure to remind them.
Due to the tendency of respondents to remember and therefore base their reporting on alcohol consumption on their recent alcohol use, seasonal variations in alcohol use may affect responses on long-term or typical alcohol use, which again may affect the validity of such data as sources of information on risky alcohol consumption and total volume of alcohol consumed over time in the population.
Alexander Crummell on the other hand seemed to worry about the enduring effects of slavery especially because of the tendency of its victims to remember its horrors, though interestingly Douglass thought that these memories could be bracing (Crummell 1891: 18, 19).
There is something of a tendency among conservatives when criticising state intervention to remember the pre-welfare state through rose-tinted glasses.
Information based on self-report make the study design vulnerable to possible recall bias; hence increased tendency in some individuals for whatever reason to remember both past injuries and recent symptoms.
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