Doorway Effect
A psychological phenomenon in which people tend to forget their original purpose or items upon walking through a doorway into a new room. The classic explanation holds that spatial boundaries create event segmentation in memory, but four replication experiments in 2021 failed to reproduce a reliable effect.
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The doorway effect is a well-known phenomenon in psychology: when people walk through a door into a new room, they often forget what they originally intended to do or fetch.
Four replication experiments led by cognitive psychologists in 2021 failed to reproduce a reliable doorway effect, suggesting that its effect size may have been exaggerated or that it holds only under specific conditions.
Why Your Brain Does That's registration mechanism allows flagging cases of 'source and entry mismatch', of which the doorway effect is one example.
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The doorway effect is a well-known phenomenon in psychology: when people walk through a door into a new room, they often forget what they originally intended to do or fetch.
50%UnverifiedFour replication experiments led by cognitive psychologists in 2021 failed to reproduce a reliable doorway effect, suggesting that its effect size may have been exaggerated or that it holds only under specific conditions.
50%UnverifiedWhy Your Brain Does That's registration mechanism allows flagging cases of 'source and entry mismatch', of which the doorway effect is one example.
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