Telescoping effect - Wikipedia

In cognitive psychology, the telescoping effect (or telescoping bias) refers to the temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are. The former is known as backward telescoping or time expansion, and the latter as is known as forward telescoping.

Oh, that was just last year when I got my Vespa bag five years ago.

PS- I’m still using it today.

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