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Zei·gar·nik effect

n :  the psychological tendency to remember an uncompleted task rather than a completed one
 
Zeigarnik, Bluma (b 1900),
Russian psychologist. Zeigarnik first described the Zeigarnik effect in 1927.
 
 

 
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