TYPE · 29 ENTRIES

Memory effects

How memory rewrites itself — distortions, false confidence, fading detail.

Memory is reconstructive, not playback. These effects describe the systematic ways that reconstruction goes sideways: filling in blanks, reshaping events to match the present, mistaking imagination for recall.

#19
Zeigarnik Effect
Memory & Recall
 #27
Humor Effect
Memory & Recall
 #42
Hindsight Bias
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Cryptomnesia
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False Memory Syndrome
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Rosy Retrospection
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Tip of the Tongue
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Consistency Bias
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Peak-End Rule
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Primacy Effect
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Recency Effect
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Picture Superiority Effect
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Von Restorff Effect
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Misinformation Effect
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Memory Inhibition
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Fading Affect Bias
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Generation Effect
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Source Confusion
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 #150
Self-Reference Effect
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Telescoping Effect
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Bizarreness Effect
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Next-in-Line Effect
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Retrospective Determinism
Probability & Logic
 #202
Suggestibility
Memory & Recall
 #213
Morbid Curiosity
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Forgetting Curve
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Leveling and Sharpening
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Memory Conjunction Error
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Change Bias
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OTHER TYPES

The other 7 types of glitch.

Cognitive biases 91

Systematic errors in judgment, baked into how the brain weighs evidence.

Social effects 31

What other people's presence, opinions, and signals do to your thinking.

Decision traps 22

Patterns that hijack a clean decision into a costly one.

Metacognitive errors 22

Glitches in how you think about your own thinking.

Perceptual effects 16

Where the eyes (or attention) lie before the brain even gets a vote.

Logical fallacies 11

Argument moves that look like reasoning but skip a step.

Heuristics 9

Mental shortcuts — fast, often right, occasionally catastrophic.

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