Primacy Effect
bias
Summary: Give extra weight to what you learned first.
Early impressions anchor later evaluations, so initial information dominates judgments even after new data arrives.
Pattern prevalence
- Authors: top 1.2%, bottom 0.2%, overall 0.6%
- Publications: top 1.8%, bottom 1.4%, overall 0.6%
- Articles: top 11.2%, bottom 1.5%, overall 6.3%
Recent example
of course, it's not that simple. Because some people who saw the initial allegations in blaring headlines, or charges filed, and a trial looming, might have missed the most important thing: The not guilty verdict. So the former may stick in minds while the latter is marginalized. STEFON DIGGS FELONY STRANGULATION TRIAL BEGINS
Recent articles
Stefon Diggs' attorneys warn athletes face 'opportunistic targeting' after not guilty verdict in court 47.6%
OutKick - By Armando Salguero - 5/6/2026, 10:10 AM
After Stefon Diggs emerged from a criminal court in Dedham, Massachusetts, late Tuesday afternoon, not guilty of onerous felony strangulation and assault and battery charges, it should have expunged a six-month saga in which he looked quite bad in the court of public opinion. But, of course, it's not that simple. Because some people who... more
Daily Horoscope for April 09, 2026 52.2%
New York Daily News - By Tarot.com - 4/9/2026, 12:00 AM
Indoctrination 53.5% - Overconfidence Bias 36.1% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 32.8%
General Daily Insight for April 09, 2026 A door is opening to a brighter future! Mars blasts into Aries at 3:36 PM EDT today, which spikes our courage and energy levels. We're ready to move forward and take real action to improve our lives. That may mean starting a new project or ending one's gone on too long. Either way, this decisive... more
Read With KQED the Book That Changed How We See Nature 0%
KQED - By Danielle Venton - 3/19/2026, 2:00 PM
“There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings.” In this, the opening line of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the author begins to paint a bleak, but plausible, picture: a community where fish once thrived in the creeks and rivers, insects buzzed in fields, birds filled the... more
California’s First Millennial Lawmaker Ian Calderon Makes His Case for Governor 0%
KQED - By Marisa Lagos, Scott Shafer - 2/20/2026, 12:35 AM
Former Los Angeles Assemblyman Ian Calderon made history in 2012, becoming the first millennial elected to the California State Assembly at age 27. He stepped away from politics in 2020 to focus on his growing family, and now at age 40 he is running for governor. He joins Marisa to frame his pitch to voters, casting himself as part of a... more
Pro-police group asks DOJ to probe Soros-backed Virginia prosecutor using Biden-era law once aimed at cops 0%
Fox News - By Charles Creitz - 12/26/2025, 3:04 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A pro-police group will request the Justice Department investigate a Virginia prosecutor accused of being unfairly lenient to illegal immigrant suspects, using an oversight law the Biden administration used to scrutinize police departments like one in Kentucky after the Breonna Taylor incident. The law enforcement... more
State senator had been drinking before crash that took her life 0%
Colorado Public Radio - By Bente Birkeland - 12/19/2025, 11:28 PM
State Sen. Faith Winter was driving with a blood alcohol level twice the legal limit when she was killed in a traffic crash on Nov. 26, according to toxicology reports. The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office completed its investigation into two crashes that occurred that night on I-25 near Centennial. They determined that Winter was at... more
Oklahoma Black Lives Matter leader indicted on 25 counts of fraud and embezzlement 0%
One America News Network - By OAN Staff, Katherine Mosack - 12/12/2025, 8:39 AM
(Background) Demonstrators hold “Black Lives Matter” signs in Minnesota on February 24, 2022. (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images) / (L) Screen capture of BLM OKC executive director Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson in an interview with KOCO 5 News. A federal grand jury has indicted a leader of the Black... more
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns 0%
MS NOW - By Brandy Zadrozny - 12/5/2025, 11:00 AM
Without data to support their decision and defying warnings from doctors, medical associations and public health groups, a federal advisory panel stocked with loyalists to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has voted to stop recommending a life-saving vaccine to infants at birth. The Centers for Disease Control and... more
Michael Shaikh on How War Changes Food 0%
RadioWest | KUER - 11/25/2025, 10:11 PM
Shaikh is a human rights activist whose work has taken him around the world. It was during a meal in Afghanistan in 2007 that he began to perceive the cost of violence on foodways, when he was offered a dish that he’d never had before in all his time in the country. In his book, “The Last Sweet Bite,” Shaikh visits six places affected by... more