This is a cognitive bias known as the recency effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

But be careful about succumbing to what psychologists call recency bias - the tendency to form beliefs based largely on the most recent observations in a long series of data.    From Wordnik.com.  [doggdot.us] Reference

The second is what I like to call the "recency" bias.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding Financial Wisdom] Reference

It’s the last impression, what psychologists call the recency effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [NaNoWrimo Workshop – Constructing Scenes « Write Anything] Reference

• "This pronouncement smacks of the 'recency' effect and gives the short shrift to history.".    From Wordnik.com.  [SI.com] Reference

Date Biasing - With date biasing a publisher can tell Google Site Search to place great emphasis on "recency" than it would otherwise do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Search Engine Watch Blog] Reference

A time line will illustrate the recency of events.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Sloan Wilson: EvoS: Coming Soon to a College Near You] Reference

I mean, there ` s this theory called primacy and recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2005] Reference

The primacy effect is usually more prevalent than the recency effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interesting Summer Job Idea #1] Reference

KAVINOKY: Well, primarily because of the laws of primacy and recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2008] Reference

And it is based on relative recency of ancestry, as his quote indicates.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

Both primacy and recency work to the disadvantage of Republicans at the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will There Even Be Any Scary Right-Wing Groups Swift-Boating Obama?] Reference

Another condition favourable to recall is the recency of the original experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference

Chris writes an excellent essay about recency and how RSS can change the future web.    From Wordnik.com.  [2005 July] Reference

Mine are sorted by recency so those who've posted lately are at the top of the list.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to keep up with all of this blogging stuff using bloglines.] Reference

Research shows that people remember stories in a newscast based on primacy and recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Warner: What I Learned From Jay Leno's Prime Time Debut: Part II] Reference

In addition to recency bias, another behavioral tendency that plagues us is "groupthink.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Farnoosh Torabi: Psych Yourself Rich: How To Beat Your Brain When It Comes To Financial Decisions] Reference

That infamous magazine cover is the biggest example of recency that journalism has ever known.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Berman: Reports of the Death of Equities: Greatly Exaggerated] Reference

Our preliminary results appear to confirm the conventional beliefs about recency and frequency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simulmedia: In the Quest for the Perfect Formula of Recency and Frequency of Promotional Exposure - Yuliya Torosjan - MediaBizBloggers] Reference

Now you can set options to each individual feed like content preview displayed and item recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [All New My Yahoo] Reference

The factors of association are primacy, recency, frequency, intensity, and mental set or attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference

And, as the primacy-recency effect would suggest, the first word as well, to perhaps a lesser degree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

But those with a “recency bias” assume events or patterns of the past will continue into the future.    From Wordnik.com.  [Control Yourself] Reference

Moreover, Cutting Edges does not give preference to New Republic pieces, nor, for that matter, to recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington's New Celebrities: An Exchange] Reference

If you look at Figure 5g, you will see a Venn diagram that groups organisms by relative recency of ancestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

These filters may be based on metadata, (recency, genre, BPM) and can be either user - or environment-based.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Weinstein: First Look at Peter Gabriel's The Filter: A Discovery Engine for All Things] Reference

Erwin Ephron's "recency theory" postulates that one exposure at a time when a consumer is ready to buy is sufficient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simulmedia: In the Quest for the Perfect Formula of Recency and Frequency of Promotional Exposure - Yuliya Torosjan - MediaBizBloggers] Reference

One real-time search engine that combines the relevancy and recency for ranking real-time streams is feedmil. com reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Time Search Dilemma: Consciousness Versus Memory] Reference

More directly: if you look at Figure 5g, you will see a Venn diagram that groups organisms by relative recency of ancestry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

The factors that strengthen these tendencies or connections are the frequency, recency, primacy, and vividness of experience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference

Both are saying the same thing: Right message is to resonance what right consumer is to relevance what right time is to recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three W's of Unholy Disengagement - Mike Einstein - MediaBizBloggers] Reference

If Common Descent is true and you group present life by successive degrees of recency of speciation, you get a nested hierarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

But if we build a hierarchy on the basis of relative recency of ancestry (Figure 3a, and Figure 5g) we do get a nested hierarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Book] Reference

Think about it: With one click (24 hour results), you can now bypass nearly the entire search ranking structure, and get recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google Launches Search Options, Declares Real-Time Search Biggest Challenge] Reference

So, with primacy and recency, you want to start out the gate with your opening statement strong and capture the jurors 'attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2005] Reference

He relied on the law of exercise under which Thorndike had subsumed the old principles of association such as frequency and recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEHAVIORISM] Reference

The real time search dilemma centers precisely around how to rank results, and how to resolve the tension between recency and relevancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Real Time Search Dilemma: Consciousness Versus Memory] Reference

It comes up simply because it happened to be the most recent post on the subject (technorati returns results by recency, not relevance).    From Wordnik.com.  [On serendipity in the web experience : #comments] Reference

The preliminary study that we conducted was designed to help confirm or dispel the historically held beliefs about frequency and recency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simulmedia: In the Quest for the Perfect Formula of Recency and Frequency of Promotional Exposure - Yuliya Torosjan - MediaBizBloggers] Reference