behavioral

Primacy Effect

The primacy effect is a cognitive bias in which items encountered early in a sequence are recalled or weighted more heavily than items encountered later. It is a component of the broader serial position effect.

Example: In a memory experiment, participants tended to recall the first items on a list more accurately, illustrating the primacy effect; in a briefing, early-placed information may disproportionately shape initial impressions.

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