The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is when you never noticed something or saw something before, and then you see it everywhere.
For example say you see a chipmunk in an area you never noticed them before, and now you just see chipmunks everywhere.
During my last semester I learned about the 4 main educational philosophies, and now I’m doing a personality test in the back of my head whenever I meet someone who likes children
Please don’t do this to people. Yeah there are way too many pedophiles out there but you’re still so unlikely to meet one. Unless you go to church.
Omg this has a name?! It’s one of my favorite things to happen lol
Okay so uh…back when I had a really tough assignment and I didn’t wanna study for it and I had just one day left. I was talking to a girl on Facebook about not doing my assignment and she sent me something that she uses to write her homework, well I looked it up and it worked brilliantly, I was able to submit my assignment in time with zero effort.
Next week everyone was using chatgpt for assignments
I experienced it pretty profoundly when taking a plant systematics and identification course. I had always loved plants as a gardener, so the added knowledge of general plant anatomy lit a fire in my brain.
Now when I would learn a new plant, I would notice it everywhere, even out of the corner of my eye while driving at speed on a highway.
I’m still a slut for the thrill of learning a new plant.
I couldn’t recall the name, but was explaining this effect to my son the other day. He was talking about the show The Good Place and joking that people seemed to now often be doing what the show was teaching us not to do, and that the writers must been good at seeing where the world was headed. I explained to him how it was actually commentary on the state of the world at the time, now that he was aware of it, he saw how prevalent it was.
Car. Its always the cars. Parents have a new car and OMG WHY DOES EVERYONE ELSE HAVE THE SAME CAR?
(Are people spying on us? Are they trying to imitate/mock us? 👀)
