Elisa Reiter, Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and Daniel Pollack, attorney and professor at Yeshiva University's School of Social Work in New York City.

Hindsight bias is a thought pattern that convinces you that you've known a certain outcome all along. This can make processing trauma difficult, because of a belief that it could have been prevented.

“Hindsight is 20/20,” one often hears in the context of a tendency to evaluate past choices more clearly in light of new information. But the perfect “20/20” score, referring to a measure of visual ...