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Ovsiankina effect
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English
Etymology
Named after Maria Ovsiankina (1898–1993), a Russian-German-American psychologist who studied this effect.
Noun
en psychology The tendency to pick up an interrupted action again when it has still not been completed.
en Zeigarnik effect
Further reading
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