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  2. Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia

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    Overall, the Dunning–Kruger effect has been studied across a wide range of tasks, in aviation, business, debating, chess, driving, literacy, medicine, politics, spatial memory, and other fields. [5] [9] [26] Many studies focus on students—for example, how they assess their performance after an exam. In some cases, these studies gather and ...

  3. Environmental psychology - Wikipedia

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    Environmental health shows the effects people have on the environment as well as the effects the environment has on people. [21] From early studies showing that patients with a view of nature from their hospital recovered faster than patients with a window view of a brick wall, [ 22 ] how, why, and to which extent nature has mental and physical ...

  4. However, these effects weren't felt among all people equally—younger, politically engaged individuals reported the most significant changes in well-being. Also, the effects weren't just physical.

  5. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Cross-race effect: The tendency for people of one race to have difficulty identifying members of a race other than their own. Egocentric bias: Recalling the past in a self-serving manner, e.g., remembering one's exam grades as being better than they were, or remembering a caught fish as bigger than it really was. Euphoric recall

  6. Human impact on the environment - Wikipedia

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    Several studies have also found a strong positive correlation between higher military spending and higher carbon emissions where increased military spending has a larger effect on increasing carbon emissions in the Global North than in the Global South. [292] [290] Military activities also affect land use and are extremely resource-intensive. [293]

  7. Bystander effect - Wikipedia

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    Recent research has focused on "real world" events captured on security cameras, and the coherency and robustness of the effect has come under question. [1] More recent studies also show that this effect can generalize to workplace settings, where subordinates often refrain from informing managers regarding ideas, concerns, and opinions. [2] [3]

  8. Mere-exposure effect - Wikipedia

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    The effect has been demonstrated with many kinds of things, including words, Chinese characters, paintings, pictures of faces, geometric figures, and sounds. [1] In studies of interpersonal attraction , the more often people see a person, the more pleasing and likeable they find that person.

  9. Three degrees of influence - Wikipedia

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    This argument is basically that peer effects need not stop at one degree of separation. Rather, across a broad set of empirical settings, using both observational and experimental methods, it has been observed that the effect seems, in many cases, to no longer be meaningful at a social horizon of three degrees.