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David Dunning in 1999. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture...

Look up effect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Effect may refer to: A result or change of something List of effects Cause and effect, an idiom describing...

of the information. The effect is named for American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attorney's attempt in 2003 to suppress the publication...

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear...

plastic pen to neutral uncharged pieces of paper (for example) is due to induced dipoles: Chapter 27  in the paper. The triboelectric effect can be unpredictable...

deterministic health effect has a severity that is dependent on dose and is believed to have a threshold level for which no effect is seen. Stochastic...

gradient causes charge carriers in the material to diffuse from the hot side to the cold side. This effect can be used to generate electricity, measure...

The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the...

studied in condensed matter physics, solid state, and quantum chemistry to draw inferences about the properties of atoms, molecules and solids. The effect has...

Hall effect is the production of a potential difference (the Hall voltage) across an electrical conductor that is transverse to an electric current in the...

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

The Effect is a play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble. The story revolves around two protagonists, Connie and Tristan, who volunteer in a clinical...

connection to other people and the Earth as a whole. The effect can cause changes in the observer’s self concept and value system, and can be transformative...

influence one's opinion or feelings. Halo effect is ”the name given to the phenomenon whereby evaluators tend to be influenced by their previous judgments...

strength, this effect can be used to measure magnetic field strength, e.g. that of the Sun and other stars or in laboratory plasmas. In 1896 Zeeman learned...

Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse...

The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature...

Effect titles are widely considered to be among the greatest games of all time. Mass Effect 2 in particular is the most critically acclaimed game in the...

literal, mechanical domino effect is exploited in Rube Goldberg machines. In chemistry, the principle applies to a domino reaction, in which one chemical reaction...

The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts...