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The effect with unanswered questions you've mentioned is the so-called Zeigarnik effect
"Having that sort of information gap is sort of like a puzzle or a riddle." 2007
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* Behold the terror of the Zeigarnik Effect: “the tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete.”
It Was The Week That Wouldn’t End and It Was Only Half Over « Gerry Canavan 2010
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* Behold the terror of the Zeigarnik Effect: “the tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete.”
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Rather than providing necessary interruptions to assist us in focusing on the incomplete task at hand, as Zeigarnik proposed, the deluge of multi-channel signals has produced an array of concentration-related problems, including lost productivity, cognitive overload, and a wearying diminishment in our ability to retain the very information we consume with such voraciousness.
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Rather than providing necessary interruptions to assist us in focusing on the incomplete task at hand, as Zeigarnik proposed, the deluge of multi-channel signals has produced an array of concentration-related problems, including lost productivity, cognitive overload, and a wearying diminishment in our ability to retain the very information we consume with such voraciousness.
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Horwitz (1954) found that individual members were under the greatest tension according to their greater recall of interrupted tasks (Zeigarnik effect), when they voted not to continue a task that the group had voted to continue.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Horwitz (1954) found that individual members were under the greatest tension according to their greater recall of interrupted tasks (Zeigarnik effect), when they voted not to continue a task that the group had voted to continue.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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Bluma Zeigarnik was a Russian psychologist, who noticed that waiters remembered a long, complicated order until they finished serving it.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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This problem is aggravated by the “Zeigarnik effect”: people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones.
Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007
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Apparently you can game the Zeigarnik Effect for more effective studying, employ it to goose your direct marketing plan, or just consider it as one excellent explanation for the allure of multi-tasking.
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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