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Interruption, recall and resumption: a meta-analysis of the Zeigarnik and Ovsiankina effects

Reward & Compulsion

Ghibellini, Meier · 2025 · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

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People do not remember unfinished tasks better in general, but they do feel pulled to resume them — the robust basis of the ‘endless next step’.

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