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memory
You forget what others say when you are waiting.
In a 1982 study, participants showed significantly lower recall for information delivered immediately before their own turn to speak.
This phenomenon, known as the next-in-line effect, occurs because cognitive resources are diverted toward rehearsing one's own upcoming response. You focus on your internal performance rather than the external input.
You are often less attentive to a conversation when you are preparing to speak.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Bond and Komoda, 1982, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- What the check found
- The study 'The next-in-line effect: Being heard and seen' (1982) by Bond and Komoda is a landmark paper that empirically confirms the reduced recall of information presented immediately prior to one's own turn.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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