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Focus

Everything on this site about focus — each one naming the study behind it.

You miss the obvious when your focus is occupied.
Participants often fail to notice a prominent stimulus, like a person in a costume, when they are engaged in a simple …
The more you try not to think, the more.
A 1994 study revealed that instructions to suppress a specific thought result in that thought becoming more cognitivel…
Unfinished tasks linger in your memory much longer.
A classic 1927 study found that people remember interrupted tasks roughly twice as well as completed ones.…