Recency Effect and Jim's Mother

"Treating his friends I'd like to discuss their recency effect with you. We're generally influenced by the last thing that we see here or read. And especially when someone wants to believe something so badly. I'll give you a little incident out of my own life. Back in the early seventies when I went to college for the first time, of course, I had another agenda. Those were back in the days when the actual paper grades were sent home through the mail. Well, my mother got those and was in distress about how poorly I had done and came to me asking me how that could have happened. Well, what I did was explained to her that I had contacted the school and there was a computer glitch and that I had received someone else's grades and my mother wanted to believe me so badly, that she never asked me for evidence and never asked to call the school. And I regret that to this day. However, what I do is continue to make amends to that woman even though she's been gone for a while, by staying clean and sober every day."