The life of any living creature and our planet in general is quite complex and multifaceted. The article describes the scientific and psychological phenomena that the world considers surprising and sometimes even unbelievable.
10. The Bruce Effect
In 1959, a biologist named Hilda Bruce observed the behavior of female mice at a time when new males were planted in their cages. Pregnant mice, when they sensed someone else’s male, always had a miscarriage. Then the scientists decided that in this way nature saves the male from a potential rival in the form of an unborn mouse. Scientists in the Michigan science magazine published an article that talks about Gelad monkeys. When the dominant male changed in the group, almost all pregnant female monkeys lost their fetus. Researchers attributed this to the fact that the new male would still exterminate all the cubs from his former competitor. And the females terminated the pregnancy because they knew that their children would die in the end anyway, which means that it makes no sense to spend energy on further bearing the fetus.
9. The Leidenfrost Effect
Surely you have seen many times how water, falling on the surface of a hot frying pan, partially turns into steam and partially turns into drops that spin wildly on the surface. This is the Leidenfrost effect. When water touches a surface whose temperature is much higher than 100 degrees Celsius, the liquid itself instantly produces a layer of steam as a protection. Therefore, in fact, the drops soar in the pan, and between them and the surface there is a vapor layer that prevents the liquid from instantly evaporating. The effect, as it were, allows water to levitate over the pan in the form of drops and not to touch a hot surface at this moment.
8. Ollie effect
Before the scientist zoologist Clyde Ollie revealed a certain pattern, people believed that there should be more offspring in a population with fewer individuals, because more resources are available to it. However, such a phenomenon from biology as the “Ollie Effect” clearly shows a completely different ratio of population growth and its size. As soon as the number becomes smaller, then the growth also decreases. In other words, females will give birth to more cubs if the species has a large population. As soon as the number decreases, the number of offspring will decrease.
7. Oversight effect
Imagine a man who is in love with a girl. She seems to him the most charming, smart and kind. He often watches her. And then one day this same man sees his beloved woman walking down the street, but suddenly stumbles and falls backward. After that, he will fall in love with the girl even more, because in his own eyes he will look more dexterous and thus more attractive to her. And all this will happen due to its oversight. This kind of “oversight effect” is well studied and applied in the field of business, politics and in the world of sports. Its meaning is that people prefer to love more imperfect people who make mistakes, mistakes, stumble in something.
6. The effect of the review
Of all the described effects, this is the rarest. For the entire time the existence of our planet, only 500 with a small person experienced the effect of the review. These are astronauts who managed to see our entire planet from the surface of the moon or from orbit. They feel its scale and grandeur, its perspective. Returning back to the planet, the astronauts later describe what indescribable feelings aroused in them a full view of the planet. The view of the Earth from the side completely changes a person’s attitude to other people and to his planet, turns around the worldview. Astronauts admitted that after that they felt all people were united, could no longer understand the cultural and linguistic differences and felt the need to protect nature.
5. Tamagotchi effect
In the 90s of the last century, the game in Tamagotchi swept children and even adults around the world. A virtual pet that needs to be taken care of every day, won the love of the whole planet. The Tamagotchi effect was named after him a special phenomenon, which denotes an emotional attachment to a robot or any virtual object. It can be not only Tamagotchi, it can be a computer, mobile phone or even some kind of computer program. The effect of this effect on a person can be either negative or positive.
4. The effect of the audience and the theory of crowding out
This effect consists in two diametrically different phenomena. Imagine athletes. Most often, athletes show the highest results if their actions are watched by a huge audience of people. The more people, the higher the rates. At the same time, other athletes are more often more successful if the audience that watches them is small. A huge number of viewers, on the contrary, scare such people. Psychologist Zayonts noted that the influence of the audience is negative or positive, depending on the simplicity of the task that the athlete faces. If the athlete himself is confident in his abilities, then numerous spectators motivate him to win even more. A large number of people who are unsure of themselves can be embarrassing and contribute to lowering their self-esteem and losing.
3. The effect of sleeping
This is an effect proving how negative and positive information can change our minds. If the ad you hear or read has a positive slogan, then after a while you will forget it. If, however, an advertising replica inspires any distrust, the commentator pronounces it with a deliberate reservation, there is a pun in the message or the source of information seems unusual to you, then you will definitely remember it. First, you will be suspicious of such information, and then you will believe in it yourself.
2. The Pygmalion Effect
The effect proves that the highest expectations of a person ultimately lead to high results. The phenomenon is named after the play of the same name by Bernard Shaw. Moreover, there is an opposite effect, proving that low expectations lead to poor results. The Pygmalion effect is studied in the field of business, sports, but a special place is given to it in education. For example, those students from whom teachers expect this success most of all achieve success in their studies.
1. The effect of diorama
This is a process of unusual shooting of a photographer, in which the real objects that he takes, because of their miniature, seem like toys. This technique is very common. It is used to make the photo look like it was shot using an unusual lens. There are several step-by-step instructions that will allow everyone to master the skill of diorama shooting if they wish. The effect has another name - “tilt-shift”.