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hindsight noun act of looking backward, consideration, contemplation, contemplation of past events, contemplation of the past, deliberation, later meditation, later thought, looking back, meditation, musing, recall, recollection, reconsideration, reflection, remembrance, retrospect, retrospection, review, review of things past, rumination, second thoughts, second view, subsequent meditation, subsequent refleccion, survey of time past, thoughts of the past See also: retrospect How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A study directed by Ralph Hertwig of the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich and accepted for publication in Psychological Review suggests that a memory error known as hindsight bias occurs as a by-product of expertly learning and remembering pertinent information. The author explains that because of various cognitive biases and illusions, such as hindsight bias, illusory correlations, etc. |
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