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If you want to ruin someone's weekend, give them an easy puzzle and rip it away right before they finish. The Zeigarnik effect states that our working memory…
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Your brain is remarkably stupid when it comes to figuring out why your heart is racing. Stanley Schachter injected people with adrenaline and then stuck them…
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In a list of incredibly boring items, the single weirdest one is the only survivor. Your mind instantly flags the oddity as important and actively purges the…
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Your mind is basically a goldfish when listening to long speeches. It abandons everything said at the beginning and desperately clings to the very last…
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The serial position curve ensures the middle children of data are aggressively ignored. Lacking the novelty of the first items and the immediate buffer of the…
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Context-dependent memory binds facts to the physical space where they were acquired. Research shows that lists memorized twenty feet underwater are incredibly…
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