Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon

 

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Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon also known as Red Car Theory and The frequency Illusion is a cognitive bias, one that has people who have it, notice a specific concept, word or even a product more frequently after becoming aware of it.

Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon was coined by Terry Mullen in 1994 when he sent a letter to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, a newspaper based in Saint Paul, Minnesota which serves the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area. In the Letter, Mullen states the one time mention of the name Baader-Meinhof -a West-German left-wing militant group- he kept noticing it. The letter prompted other people to share their own experiences of the phenomenon. Leading to the phenomenons wider gain in recognition. The name frequency Illusion was coined and tied to Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in 2005 when Professor Arnold Zwicky, a Stanford Linguistics professor wrote about the effect on the blog he wrote.

With the increase in frequency amongst the general public -thanks to access to the internet, several possible causes behind the phenomenon have been put forwards but the general consensus is the phenomenon can be tied to other cognitive biases and attention-related effects. Zwicky mentioned the possibility the phenomenon could be a result of two psychological processes called selective attention and confirmation bias.

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