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memory

You remember events as better than they were.

The study titled 'Temporal adjustments in the evaluation of events: The rosy prospection and rosy retrospection' was published in 1997, not 1994.

The research was conducted by T.R. Mitchell, L. Thompson, E. Peterson, and R. Cronk, and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology in 1997.

The nostalgia you feel is a selective edit.

Where this comes from

Study
Mitchell et al., 1997
What the check found
The definition of rosy retrospection is accurate, but the supporting details (date and source attribution) are slightly imprecise or conflated with the provided reference material.
Confidence
Solid, with limits

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