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I only skimmed, but the two linked articles have ~50 participants or _fewer_ (college students) for each.
I would agree in general, but I would like to see three or more, as well as variations to test the boundaries of this.
Things can go wrong in one or two studies, so having independent replication is needed to really cement things.
I've noticed that retracing your steps (either literally if walking or not) helps enormously. For me it happens that I'm doing something on my phone, remember to do something else, switch apps to do it, and literally forget what it is. But by going back or checking the recent apps I find again the "trigger" of the original reminder. For example, you are checking [social network] and you see a post that reminds you to…
Definitely. My wife and I have a running joke about it. I'll walk into the room, she says "What's up?" and I say "trying to find something and I forgot what it was. Hold on, let me go back to my office to remember."
Then when my dog got old and doolaly he started to do it.
Not just humans
I only skimmed, but the two linked articles have ~50 participants or _fewer_ (college students) for each.
Meaning that the effect must be fairly strong to be observable in two studies with n=50? I would agree in general, but I would like to see three or more, as well as variations to test the boundaries of this. Things can go wrong in one or two studies, so having independent replication is needed to really cement things.
Do what now? Isn't the problem that it could have randomly happened (especially if people did a bunch of other similar studies that didn't observe an effect, and only these two were published)?
If my husband is at home then he tends to get in on the act, leading to conversations like "I should set a timer for five minutes." "You should set a timer for five minutes!" "I'm gonna set a timer for five minutes." "Didja set that timer for five minutes?" "I just set a timer for five minutes!" when I'm crossing from the kitchen to the living room and leaving some water to boil.
This is extremely amplified when taking psychedelics
Ah, this is explains the effect of entering a room and not remembering why you went there.
In my experience the start page idea was a software implementation of "Doorway Effect". I always had to return to the desktop to have my "refrigerator logic" spin up.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fridge_logic>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality
The "doorway effect" is a more everyday phenomenon. Interesting that the idea that transitions result in disorientation scales from the mundane to the religious.