Declinism: Why we think the past was better than the future
Idea to Value
JUNE 22, 2023
I have previously shared research about the cognitive bias of the rosy retrospective. In it, we found evidence that people seem to remember things as more positive than they were in reality at the time they happened. Now, there is another related but different bias which I quickly want to highlight: Declinism. Declinism is not just the belief that things were better in the past, but that they will continue to get worse in the future as well.
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