Talk:Zeigarnik effect

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I postulate that the Zeigarnik effect is the reason that when you stop listening to a song before it is finished and leave (i.e. not listen to another song), the song gets stuck in your head and you keep repeating it over and over until you finish it. BLAH BLAH &mdash;Poromenos (talk • contribs) 00:21, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe what you meant is actually stuck song syndrome. The Zeigarnik effect occurs when we do brainstorming and multitasking. The latter is often associated with release of a hormone called dopamine which enables us to finish tasks faster. &mdash; CrafterNova [ TALK ]  [ CONT ] 05:29, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

Zeigarnik (pronounced how?) effect; occurs all the time to me
The song example is a good one & frequently happens to me. Similar to the formerly close relationships with people which have become distant to the point of absence but never had closure enough to be forgotten Christophersmith~enwiki (talk) 00:32, 24 March 2006‎ (UTC)

Incomplete Definition
The Zeigarnik effect normally provides us with a sense of completion at the end of a task. It isn't explicitly about leaving things unfinished. The theory goes that this sense of completion deters one from wholly completing a task. For example, if a college student is up late at night writing a paper, they might feel very relieved at this completion, and thus in this feeling of satisfaction they may forget to do the next step (which might be proofreading). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by NotUntilNow (talk • contribs) 14:23, 15 February 2007 (UTC).

The defintion states that people remember "uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones". Of course they do, after all if a task is completed it is no longer important. Important things are remembered, and unimportant things are forgotten. Uncompleted tasks still have relevance, and thus sticks out in a person's mind longer. 24.118.227.213 10:57, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Suspense
This is the short definition of zeigarnik effect. When the process of putting information from this article (and its talk page) into suspense is complete, then please begin or replace this article with #redirectsuspense I will probably do this myself, because I see suspense in an example. BrewJay (talk) 10:51, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Please put back the article, the redirect you made (to suspense) has no any mention of the Zeigarnik effect. Hakapes (talk) 09:57, 27 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It did when the merger was complete. Someone else put it into a heading. Forgotten, apparently, was making a copy of the talk page.216.234.170.98 (talk) 05:28, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Note that a section on the Zeigarnik effect was restored to the Suspense article at Suspense on 2 August, 2009. -- Thinking of England (talk) 08:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Having just read the section on the effect at the Suspense page, it is really not at all clear why it is there and how it relates to "the feeling of pleasurable fascination and excitement mixed with apprehension, tension, and anxiety developed from a unpredictable, mysterious, and rousing source of entertainment." The effect might deserve its own page, but that one does not seem suitable. Vttale (talk) 15:27, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Good source for emergency department work use
https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/8/656.short illyism (talk) 01:50, 14 August 2023 (UTC)