Brilliant quote from the abstract: "Most laypeople do not organize information in ways that provide reliable monitoring of social change over time, which makes

Brilliant quote from the abstract: "Most laypeople do not organize information in ways that provide reliable monitoring of social change over time, which makes their views on progress susceptible to memory distortions and high-profile current events and political rhetoric." I remember an older person warning me to not go to NYC because she thought it was still riddled with crime (as it presumably was decades ago). I am confident that watching the news actively distorts one's perception of the state of the world (unless one explicitly discounts what they see in favor of many other pieces of information).