Memory & Recognition
Zeigarnik Effect
Bluma Zeigarnik's finding that people remember uncompleted or interrupted tasks better than completed ones, and feel tension until incomplete tasks are resolved.
In plain language
Incomplete tasks stay active in memory. People are more motivated to finish something they've started than to start something new.
In the wild
Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.
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