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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. Declinism - Wikipedia

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    Declinism is the belief that a society or institution is tending towards decline.Particularly, it is the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and the future more negatively.

  4. 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 ...

  5. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    The predisposition to view the past favorably (rosy retrospection) and future negatively. [93] End-of-history illusion: The age-independent belief that one will change less in the future than one has in the past. [94] Exaggerated expectation: The tendency to expect or predict more extreme outcomes than those outcomes that actually happen. [5]

  6. Good old days - Wikipedia

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    Good old days – commonly stylized as "good ol' days" – is a cliché in popular culture used to reference a time considered by the speaker to be better than the current era.

  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. Euphoric recall - Wikipedia

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    Euphoric recall is a cognitive bias that describes the tendency of people to remember past experiences in a positive light, while overlooking negative experiences associated with some event(s).

  9. Decadence - Wikipedia

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    This may be caused by the predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, to view the past more favourably and future more negatively. [1] Declinism has been described as "a trick of the mind" and as "an emotional strategy, something comforting to snuggle up to when the present day seems intolerably bleak."