Forward telescoping
= Forward telescoping
Dating a past event as more recent than its actual date. In prospective childhood-memory work, the same reported event can acquire progressively later age estimates. Shifts relative to the first interview establish dating instability, not the absolute accuracy of that first estimate.<The fate of childhood memories by Qi Wang and Carole Peterson>[Frontiers in Psychology 6, 2038; initial, two-year and eight-year memory dating interviews]{ref}