Consistency Bias Warps Our Personal and Political Memories

PsyBlog: How the Consistency Bias Warps Our Personal and Political Memories: "consistency bias ... is the finding that we will often reconstruct the past to make it more compatible with our current worldview."

"The consistency bias is only one of the many types of biases that our memories demonstrate. Here are a few more examples:
* Beneffectance: we tend to believe the past glories were the result of our actions, while past disgraces were someone else's fault.
* Reminiscence bump: the fascinating finding that we remember more events from our adolescence and early adulthood than from other periods of our lives.
* Hindsight bias: that we tend to think that we could easily have predicted past events when in fact we can't.
* Rose-tinted specs: remember how wonderful things were in the olden days? It wasn't that good, trust me, nostalgia isn't what it used to be."