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  2. Transportation theory (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Narrative transportation theory proposes that when people lose themselves in a story, their attitudes and intentions change to reflect that story. The mental state of narrative transportation can explain the persuasive effect of stories on people, who may experience narrative transportation when certain contextual and personal preconditions are met, as Green and Brock [1] postulate for the ...

  3. List of psychological effects - Wikipedia

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    Ambiguity effect; Assembly bonus effect; Audience effect; Baader–Meinhof effect; Barnum effect; Bezold effect; Birthday-number effect; Boomerang effect; Bouba/kiki effect; Bystander effect; Cheerleader effect; Cinderella effect; Cocktail party effect; Contrast effect; Coolidge effect; Crespi effect; Cross-race effect; Curse of knowledge ...

  4. The Hitch-Hiker (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The hitchhiker doubts that, so, once they hit a straight patch of road, the narrator accelerates. They are stopped by a policeman on a motorcycle, who is a bit of a bully and threatens to have the narrator thrown in prison. He takes down his address and also that of the hitchhiker, who claims to be a hod-carrier.

  5. Jingle-jangle fallacies - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] [6] An example of the jangle fallacy can be found in tests designed to assess emotional intelligence. Some of these tests measure merely personality or regular IQ-tests. [7] An example of the jingle fallacy is that personality and values are sometimes conflated and treated as the same construct. [8]

  6. Alter ego - Wikipedia

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    A distinct meaning of alter ego is found in the literary analysis used when referring to fictional literature and other narrative forms, describing a key character in a story who is perceived to be intentionally representative of the work's author (or creator), by oblique similarities, in terms of psychology, behavior speech, or thoughts, often ...

  7. Vanishing hitchhiker - Wikipedia

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    The vanishing hitchhiker (or variations such as the ghostly hitchhiker, disappearing hitchhiker, phantom hitchhiker) is an urban legend in which people travelling by vehicle, meet with or are accompanied by a hitchhiker who subsequently vanishes without explanation, often from a moving vehicle.

  8. The Mandela effect: 10 examples that explain what it is and ...

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    "The Mandela Effect is a pervasive false memory where people are very confident about a memory they have that's incorrect," Bainbridge tells Yahoo. It's often associated with pop culture.

  9. Similarity (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    For example, two people interested in literature are likely to run into each other in the library and form a relationship (involving the propinquity effect). [10] Another explanation is that we notice similar people, and expect a relationship to be interpersonally validating and beneficial because of similar attitudes, behaviours and values.