Meaning of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon | Babel Free

Definitions

A cognitive bias by which a recently learned word, concept, etc. suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency.

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Examples

“There’s a well-known cognitive bias where, after you become aware of something new, you start seeing it everywhere. It’s known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but from this year, I’ll think of it as the Katy B effect, after Katy on a Mission became the unexpected soundtrack of my summer.”

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