Look up effect in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Effect may refer to: A result or change of something List of effects Cause and effect, an idiom describing...
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The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness...
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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. It was first...
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The Effect is a play by the British playwright Lucy Prebble. The story revolves around two protagonists, Connie and Tristan, who volunteer in a clinical...
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In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear...
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The Bezold effect is an optical illusion, named after a German professor of meteorology Wilhelm von Bezold (1837–1907), who discovered that a color may...
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A domino effect is the cumulative effect produced when one event sets off a series of similar or related events, a form of chain reaction. The term is...
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In social choice theory and politics, the spoiler effect refers to a situation where a large group of like-minded voters split their votes among multiple...
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The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give...
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Look up effector in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Effector may refer to: Effector (biology), a molecule that binds to a protein and thereby alters the...
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deterministic health effect has a severity that is dependent on dose and is believed to have a threshold level for which no effect is seen. Stochastic...
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In psychology, the Stroop effect is the delay in reaction time between congruent and incongruent stimuli. The effect has been used to create a psychological...
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In social psychology, the pratfall effect is the tendency for interpersonal appeal to change after an individual makes a mistake, depending on the individual's...
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The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa via a thermocouple. A thermoelectric device...
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The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the...
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The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature...
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The photoelectric effect is the emission of electrons from a material caused by electromagnetic radiation such as ultraviolet light. Electrons emitted...
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The Westermarck effect, also known as reverse sexual imprinting, is a psychological hypothesis that states that people tend not to be attracted to peers...
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Mass Effect is a military science fiction media franchise created by Casey Hudson. The franchise depicts a distant future where humanity and several alien...
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overview effect is a cognitive shift reported by some astronauts while viewing the Earth from space. Researchers have characterized the effect as "a state...
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The halo effect (sometimes called the halo error) is the proclivity for positive impressions of a person, company, country, brand, or product in one area...
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Mandela effect, sometimes referred to as the Mandela phenomenon, is an instance of false collective memory. Mandela Effect or The Mandela Effect may also...
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The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber. It stars Ashton Kutcher...
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The Zeeman effect (/ˈzeɪmən/; Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzeːmɑn]) is the effect of splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of...
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The Leidenfrost effect is a physical phenomenon in which a liquid, close to a solid surface of another body that is significantly hotter than the liquid's...
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The Magnus effect is an observable phenomenon commonly associated with a spinning object moving through a fluid. A lift force acts on the spinning object...
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The Stark effect is the shifting and splitting of spectral lines of atoms and molecules due to the presence of an external electric field. It is the electric-field...
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The Kerr effect, also called the quadratic electro-optic (QEO) effect, is a change in the refractive index of a material in response to an applied electric...
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An adverse effect is an undesired harmful effect resulting from a medication or other intervention, such as surgery. An adverse effect may be termed a...
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Observer effect, observer bias, observation effect, or observation bias may refer to a number of concepts, some of them closely related: Hawthorne effect, a...
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