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Keep checking your smartphone without knowing why? You may be unconsciously copying those around you, according to Italian research into the ‘chameleon effect’
Pass notesKeep checking your smartphone without knowing why? You may be unconsciously copying those around you, according to Italian research into the chameleon effect
Name: The Chameleon Effect.
Age: About 22 years old. It was discovered and named by the sociologist John A Bargh and the social psychologist Tanya L Chartrand, who published a paper about it in 1999.
Fascinating. And what is it, exactly? The unconscious tendency to mimic others behaviour.
I thought chameleons were those lizards best…
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