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Boyer originally did not precisely specify the number of expectation-violations that would render an idea maximally counterintuitive. Early empirical studies including those by Boyer himself [3] and others [4] did not study MXCI concepts. Both these studies only used concepts violating a single expectation (which were labelled as MCI concepts).
The context-based model of the counterintuitiveness effect [1] is a cognitive model of The Minimal Counterintuitiveness Effect (or MCI-effect for short) i.e., the finding by many cognitive scientists of religion that minimally counterintuitive concepts are more memorable for people than intuitive and maximally counterintuitive concepts [2] [3]
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It may sound counterintuitive, but sleep restriction therapy may help cure your insomnia by helping you come up with a appropriate sleep schedule. It may sound counterintuitive, but sleep ...
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. [1] [2] It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true or apparently true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion.
In mathematics, the lakes of Wada (和田の湖, Wada no mizuumi) are three disjoint connected open sets of the plane or open unit square with the counterintuitive property that they all have the same boundary. In other words, for any point selected on the boundary of one of the lakes, the other two lakes' boundaries also contain that point.
In other words, it’s that disorienting feeling of sluggishness as your body and mind catch up with the fact that you’re awake. ... It might seem counterintuitive to set your alarm for 6 am ...
3 Classes of counterintuitive ideas. 1 comment. 4 Darwin Counter-Intuitive? 3 comments. 5 optical illusions. 2 comments. 6 Name. 1 comment. 7 Quantum mechanics. 1 ...