Availability-Misweighing Tendency

One of the psychological tendencies Charlie Munger catalogs in Charlie Munger — The Psychology of Human Misjudgment. The mind over-weights what is easily available — vivid, recent, or readily recalled — and cannot use what it can’t remember or is blocked from recognizing. Munger captures it with the lyric “When I’m not near the girl I love, I love the girl I’m near.”