Serial-position effect
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Serial-position effect is the tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst.

For example, in some study, one participant is given "Steve is smart, diligent, critical, impulsive, and jealous." and the other "Steve is jealous, impulsive, critical, diligent, and smart." These two sentences contain the same information. The first one suggests positive trait at the beginning while the second one has negative traits. Researchers found that the subjects evaluated Steve more positively when given the first sentence, compared with the second one.

Topic: #CognitiveBiases
Source: Wikipedia