Rosy retrospection
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A more common memory or cognitive bias is [rosy retrospection], which is the tendency to remember and [recollect] events more favorably than when they occurred. It is related to the popular idiom “to see through [rose-colored glasses].” So it is basically remembering the past as more positive than it was in reality.
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