Ovsiankina effect
Dans les années 1920, une jeune psychologue russe nommée Bluma Zeigarnik observe les serveurs dans un café viennois : elle remarque qu’ils se souviennent parfaitement des commandes en cours mais les oublient aussitôt les additions réglées. En effet, notre cerveau est programmé pour retenir... See more
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Zeigarnik Effect
The power of unfinished business or interrupted or uncompleted activity to hold a privileged place in memory. Unfinished tasks create a cognitive burden, weigh more heavily on the mind, and are more easily recalled than completed tasks.
The Zeigarnik Effect explains why people are haunted by unfulfilled goals and may be more apt to
... See moreWithout visualizing our work, we don’t see the number of incomplete tasks we’ve amassed. This makes it nearly impossible to understand just how many incomplete tasks remain. Our brains hate this because our brains crave closure. No really, they do! Soviet psychologist Bluma Zeigarnik found that the human brain needs closure. This phenomenon—known
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At the end, the subjects remembered the interrupted tasks far better than the completed ones—over two times better, in fact.