著者

Mei Yamagata Asako Miura

出版者

The Japanese Group Dynamics Association

雑誌

実験社会心理学研究 (ISSN:03877973)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.62, no.2, pp.234-239, 2023 (Released:2023-04-27)

参考文献数

10

被引用文献数

2

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Humans tend to distort past events, leading to a gap between experience and retrospective experience—the retrospective bias. This study clarified the characteristics of retrospective bias in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Longitudinal data from 597 Japanese individuals were gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic from January 2020 to January 2021. Analysis revealed that cognition regarding COVID-19 one year ago was retrospectively underestimated. In addition, within-person variation among the responses of the 11 waves consistently showed a negative association with bias. These findings suggest that retrospective methods of describing long-lasting and fluctuating events will lead to inaccurate conclusions.