The Mandela Effect, Streisand Effect, And Other “Effects”
You know that thing that happens when you first learn about something and then you start seeing it everywhere? Or when participants in a medical trial start to feel better even though they’ve been taking the pill with nothing in it? Helpfully, there are names for these things. In the context of psychology, these “things that happen”—these phenomena—are often referred to as effects, especially in …
