The next-in-line effect is the phenomenon of people being unable to recall information about the events that happened immediately before their own turn to perform.
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Core ClaimSourced to the subject's own accountThe next-in-line effect is the tendency for people to fail to recall information from the moments immediately before their own turn to speak or perform, attributed to a failure to encode that information into long-term memory while attention is on the upcoming performance. 1 First Described YearSourced to the subject's own account Classification
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1. Next-in-Line Effect (Wikipedia)
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The next-in-line effect is the phenomenon of people being unable to recall information concerning events immediately preceding their turn to perform.
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The effect was first studied experimentally by Malcolm Brenner in 1973.
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The next-in-line effect is the phenomenon of people being unable to recall information concerning events immediately preceding their turn to perform.
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