English Explanatory Dictionary

Ovsiankina effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The tendency to pick up an interrupted action again when it has still not been completed.

Word forms

Ovsiankina effect Ovsiankina effects

Etymology

Named after Maria Ovsiankina (1898–1993), a Russian-German-American psychologist who studied this effect.

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