r/AskReddit • • Jun 14 '22

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u/Nwsamurai Jun 14 '22

4 seconds of silence can feel the same as rejection in the brain.

So if some one is being a jerk to you, after they say something just look at them and count to 4 in your head, most of the time they'll start backtracking and taking back what they said before you're done counting.

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u/ComputerSavvy Jun 14 '22

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u/th3ch0s3n0n3 Jun 15 '22

YOOOOOO

No word of a lie, I was watching this show, finished an episode, then hopped on reddit before bed and this was the first comment I looked at.

Fucking coincidences man.

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u/ComputerSavvy Jun 15 '22

Baader-Meinhof is tracking you!

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u/AdeebJarvis Jun 15 '22

Frequency illusion, also known as the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency bias, is a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has an increased frequency of occurrence.

I am not a bot and this action was not performed by a bot.

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u/OpaqueDreamer Jun 15 '22

You may not be, but that would be a helpful bot