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hindsight bias: a standalone construct

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Cognitive psychology

the tendency, once an outcome is known, to see it as having been more predictable than it was.

In cognitive psychology, hindsight bias refers to the tendency, once an outcome is known, to see it as having been more predictable than it was. This meaning comes from Fischhoff (1975) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.[1]

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Fischhoff, B. (1975). Hindsight is not equal to foresight: The effect of outcome knowledge on judgment under uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1(3), 288-299. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.1.3.288

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