Researchers have examined possible reasons that the telescoping effect occurs.

Psychologists have studied the telescoping effect in children because a person's development can have a significant impact on his or her memory.

The way a question is phrased is an important factor in minimizing the telescoping effect.

The hallway seemed to recede from him the farther he followed it, but he knew the telescoping effect had to be psychological.

Studies of the telescoping effect have examined the reported age of onset of smoking, alcohol, and drug use.

At other times he subtly speeds ahead, often with a slight application of pedal, resulting in a kind of telescoping effect.

The telescoping effect is pertinent for behaviors such as smoking and alcohol usage, especially when they are early onset behaviors.

The speed of the opening moves, and the frame - the darkness - had already (he had to admit it) had a telescoping effect.

A real world example of the telescoping effect is the case of Ferdi Elsas, an infamous kidnapper and murderer in the Netherlands.

Adjustable canes: feature two or more shaft pieces for a telescoping effect that allows the user to lengthen or shorten their walking cane to fit to size.

In the United States, in the 1950s, a telescoping effect was observed with women entering alcohol abuse treatment programs with shorter histories than their male counterparts, but with symptoms of equivalent severity.

He divided the work's materials effectively between the winds and strings, with judicious percussion underpinnings, and he used an interesting telescoping effect in which chamber-scaled sections offset passages of Mahlerian heftiness.

It is characterized by large, ornate 19th-century churches, most of them Roman Catholic; and modest one-and-a-half story wood frame cottages, many with progressively smaller rear additions that give the houses a telescoping effect.

In cognitive psychology, the telescoping effect (or telescoping bias) refers to the temporal displacement of an event whereby people perceive recent events as being more remote than they are and distant events as being more recent than they are.

This telescoping effect contributes to the monumental impression made by the house, which is further heightened by two flights of poured concrete steps, so that the visitor approaches the house through a three-stage mount from driveway to front facade-a layout shared, for example, with Wright's Westcott House in Ohio, built five years later.