gunslinger effect
Meanings
noun
- The psychophysical phenomenon that an intentional or willed movement is slower than an automatic or reactive one.
Word forms
Etymology
Coined by Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who deduced that the person who draws second in a gunfight will win the shootout.
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