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Semantic satiation is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, [1] who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. Extended inspection or analysis (staring at the word or phrase for a long time) in place of repetition also produces the same effect.
The sketches are set during the World Stare-out Championship Finals, a staring match which is described as a global event broadcast all over the world. In season two, episode four of the Cartoon Network animated sitcom Regular Show , the main villain, "Peeps" (who is a large floating eyeball), is defeated by losing a staring contest.
A 1913 study by John E. Coover asked ten subjects to state whether or not they could sense an experimenter looking at them, over a period of 100 possible staring periods. . The subjects' answers were correct 50.2% of the time, a result that Coover called an "astonishing approximation" of pure chance.
USA Today compared the stocks of 13 Fortune 500 companies with women CEOs to the stocks of the overall S&P 500 and found that in 2009 the women-led companies were up an average of 50 percent, while the S&P 500 was up 25 percent.20 In 2009, the Economic Times in India conducted a study of the top 30 firms on the
In psychology and cognitive neuroscience, pattern recognition is a cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory. [1]Pattern recognition occurs when information from the environment is received and entered into short-term memory, causing automatic activation of a specific content of long-term memory.
The thousand-yard stare (also referred to as two-thousand-yard stare) is the blank, unfocused gaze of people experiencing dissociation due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war combatants and the post-traumatic stress they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a ...
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Health issues and workplace reorganization are the leading factors behind why many Americans retire early. According to the EBRI survey: 38% of those who retired earlier than expected cited health ...