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The Doorway Effect

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Colin Wright
Dec 09, 2021
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More formally called "The Location Update Effect," the phenomenon colloquially known as "The Doorway Effect" refers to the common experience of walking through a doorway and forgetting why you entered that room, or in some cases what you were thinking about before you changed rooms.

One theory as to why so many of us suffer from this seeming memory-wipe …

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