serial position effect

tendency of a person to recall the first and last items in a series best, and the middle items worst
Event cognitive_bias Q1426477
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serial position effect

Summary

serial position effect is a cognitive bias[1]. It draws 86 Wikipedia views per month (cognitive_bias category, ranking #55 of 95).[2]

Key Facts

  • serial position effect's image is recorded as Serial position.png[3].
  • serial position effect's instance of is recorded as cognitive bias[4].
  • serial position effect's part of is recorded as psychological terminology[5].
  • serial position effect's Commons category is recorded as Serial position effect[6].
  • serial position effect's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03nn4l[7].
  • serial position effect's Quora topic ID is recorded as Serial-Position-Effect[8].
  • serial position effect's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as primacy-effect[9].
  • serial position effect's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 133623452[10].
  • serial position effect's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C133623452[11].
  • serial position effect's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 26630[12].

Why It Matters

serial position effect draws 86 Wikipedia views per month (cognitive_bias category, ranking #55 of 95).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_serial-position-effect_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{serial position effect}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/serial-position-effect}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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