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Choice-supportive bias
 
People usually tend to remember their past choices as better ones than these choices actually were. These past choices can also have influence on current decisions.

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redweasel
Duck - "someone befriended them, saved them, coaxed them out of their shell, and showed them that sex is nothing to be afraid of. I’m kind of envious of that rape victim"

Fuzzbutt
aj: maud would you like to taste my new beet pie?  
maud: you took the apple pie recipe you made before, but used beets instead of apples  
aj: well, beets are sweet too, so the same recipe should work just fine  
maud: it’s not a good recipe for beets  
aj: nonsense, this recipe’s been in the family for generations!  
maud: dispersion would explain it better.  
sudden dispersion: it’s a choice-supportive bias  
aj: (et tu maud…)  
dispersion: ponies tend to exaggerate positive aspects of familiar options, and negative aspects of options they haven’t tried before  
aj: yeah so stop criticizin mah family apple pie recipe. it works fine for beets.  
maud: what?  
aj: you’re just exaggeratin’ the negative aspects, cause you hadn’t tried it before  
redweasel: WHAT THE HECK ARE THE CMC DOING WITH THAT GIANT SYRINGE