with the Latin phrase "memoria praeteritorum bonorum", which translates into English roughly as "the past is always well remembered".^[1] Rosy retrospection is very closely related to the concept of nostalgia. The difference between the terms is that rosy retrospection could be understood as a cognitive bias, whereas the broader phenomenon of nostalgia is not usually seen as based on a biased perspective. Although rosy retrospection is a cognitive bias, which distorts a -- * Positivity effect * Reference class forecasting * Nostalgia * Declinism * Pollyanna principle -- References[edit] 1. ^ "The Meaning of Nostalgia". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2017-04-22. 2. ^ "A Theory of Temporal Adjustments of the Evaluation of Events" -- * Cognitive biases * Memory biases * Nostalgia Hidden categories: