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  2. Rosy retrospection - Wikipedia

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    Rosy retrospection is a proposed psychological phenomenon of recalling the past more positively than it was actually experienced. [1] The highly unreliable nature of human memory is well documented and accepted amongst psychologists. Some research suggests a 'blue retrospective' which also exaggerates negative emotions.

  3. Rose-colored glasses - Wikipedia

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    Rosy retrospection, the tendency to view past events in a positive (often unrealistic) light; Music "Rose Coloured Glasses", a song by Hans Poulsen, recorded by ...

  4. Declinism - Wikipedia

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    Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] "The great summit of declinism" according to Adam Gopnick , "was established in 1918, in the book that gave decline its good name in publishing: the German historian ...

  5. Good old days - Wikipedia

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    There is a predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, a form of survivorship bias, for people to view the past more favourably and future more negatively. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

  6. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The predisposition to view the past favorably (rosy retrospection) and future negatively. [94] End-of-history illusion: The age-independent belief that one will change less in the future than one has in the past. [95] Exaggerated expectation: The tendency to expect or predict more extreme outcomes than those outcomes that actually happen. [5]

  7. Persistent Repetition of Phrases - Wikipedia

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    The following song, "Rosy retrospection" is named in reference to the phenomenon of the same name, whereby people judge the past as more positive than the present in a disproportionate amount. [16] "Poor enunciation" presents a dark ambient style with a choir.

  8. Category:Memory biases - Wikipedia

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  9. Nostalgia - Wikipedia

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    Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. [2] The word nostalgia is a neoclassical compound derived from Greek, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), a Homeric word meaning "homecoming", and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain"; the word was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss ...