Continued from the previous post on the Zeigarnik Effect: So I left you hanging there for a good while, with that "opened metaphor"… your mind feeling the effects of the Zeigarnik Effect (I actually had a few people call me wanting to know the next step). How is this any different from when your favorite show, say […]

… you may have felt an involuntary, possibly almost overwhelming pull to want to read these next lines following the truncated, incomplete headline. Let’s look at why this might be. In her 1962 work "The Pathology of Thinking", Russian psychologist Blyuma Zeigarnik had first reported her studies on a curious phenomenon: People in all sorts of […]

StomperNet, the slightly pricey Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing "Club" that I happen to be a member of, just had its 3rd conference in Atlanta, over a period of three days. I just got back yesterday (and am still digesting everything while trying to get back on track with everyday pursuits), and figured you’d get […]