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The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give...

The cheerleader effect, also known as the group attractiveness effect or the friend effect, is a proposed cognitive bias which causes people to perceive...

The certainty effect is the psychological effect resulting from the reduction of probability from certain to probable (Tversky & Kahneman 1986). It is...

Worlds (first edition 1999), which brought to light the emotional and psychological realities that come with the TCK journey, often resulting in feelings...

The Florence Nightingale effect is a trope where a caregiver falls in love with their patient, even if very little communication or contact takes place...

the psychological level and sees the Dunning–Kruger effect as mainly a statistical artifact. It is based on the idea that the statistical effect known...

Fletcher, Jack M.; Hiscock, Merrill (2014). "The Flynn effect: A meta-analysis". Psychological Bulletin. 140 (5): 1332–1360. doi:10.1037/a0037173. ISSN 1939-1455...

greater attention to the previously obscure photograph. The effect exemplifies psychological reactance: where the desire to hide information instead makes...

plot naturally, as the creator intended it, has been robbed of its full effect. Typically, the conclusion of a plot, including the climax and ending, is...

grandfather, as well as the family's inter-relationships and their psychological effect on Hitler during his childhood and later life. Alois Schicklgruber...

that has lent its name to a psychological effect called the centipede effect or centipede syndrome. The centipede effect occurs when a normally automatic...

This field is known as naïve physics or intuitive physics. This psychological effect is often used in the cinema, where an actor is shown apparently looking...

Vocabulary and the Spacing Effect Harry P. Bahrick, Lorraine E. Bahrick, Audrey S. Bahrick and Phyllis E. Bahrick Psychological Science Vol. 4, No. 5 (Sep...

Although psychological safety has a significant effect as a mediator in explaining team outcomes, it also plays a role as a moderator. Here, psychological safety...

conflict. When stonewalling occurs, it has both a physiological and psychological effect on the person who is stonewalling. Physiologically, the person who...

The spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that one...

the Stroop effect is the delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli. The effect has been used to create a psychological test (the...

Psychological warfare (PSYWAR), or the basic aspects of modern psychological operations (PsyOp), has been known by many other names or terms, including...

Ringelmann effect is the tendency for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases. This effect, discovered...

The country-of-origin effect (COE), also known as the made-in image and the nationality bias, is a psychological effect describing how consumers' attitudes...