Zeigarnik effect

Zeigarnik effect
Zei·gar·nik effect zī-'gär-nik- n the psychological tendency to remember an uncompleted task rather than a completed one
Zeigarnik Bluma (1900-1988)
Russian psychologist. Zeigarnik first described the Zeigarnik effect in her 1927 doctoral thesis.

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