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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...

include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood...

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness...

"No Effect" is a song by Australian hip-hop artist Hooligan Hefs, released independently on 21 May 2019 through Hooligan Hefs and The Area Movement. "No...

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...

to adjacent colors. It happens when small areas of color are interspersed. An assimilation effect called the von Bezold spreading effect, similar to spatial...

The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon in which a liquid, close to a solid surface of another body that is significantly hotter than the liquid's...

Observer effect, observer bias, observation effect, or observation bias may refer to a number of concepts, some of them closely related: Hawthorne effect, a...

overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as "a state...

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...

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

A domino effect is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a series of similar or related events, a form of chain reaction. The term is...

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

The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa via a thermocouple. A thermoelectric...

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...

In physics, the accordion effect (also known as the slinky effect, concertina effect, elastic band effect, and string instability) occurs when fluctuations...

halo effect (sometimes called the halo error) is the tendency for positive impressions of a person, company, country, brand, or product in one area to positively...

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...

solid state, and quantum chemistry to draw inferences about the properties of atoms, molecules and solids. The effect has found use in electronic devices...

termed a "side effect", when judged to be secondary to a main or therapeutic effect. The term complication is similar to adverse effect, but the latter...