Template:Did you know nominations/Maria Ovsiankina

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2020 (UTC)

Maria Ovsiankina

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• ... that psychologist Maria Ovsiankina studied a variation of the Zeigarnik effect, a study which states that people remember unfinished or interrupted tasks more than completed tasks, known as the Ovsiankina effect?

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Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:42, 2 August 2020 (UTC).

• Date, sourcing, length, QPQ ok. Hook is supported by source, but is 211 characters long. Perhaps just removing the passage 'or interrupted' could work to get it below 200? --Soman (talk) 11:10, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

• @Soman: ALT1: that psychologist Maria Ovsiankina studied a variation of the Zeigarnik effect, a study which states that people remember unfinished tasks more than completed tasks, known as the Ovsiankina effect? SL93 (talk) 14:17, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

• for ALT1, great. --Soman (talk) 14:20, 2 August 2020 (UTC)