Fading Affect Bias is a cognitive pattern where negative emotions attached to memories decay faster than positive ones. The result is a systematic distortion: past experiences feel better in hindsight than they actually felt in the moment, while present struggles feel disproportionately heavy by comparison. This bias likely explains nostalgia, resistance to change, and the common delusion that things were 'better before.'
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