Is the “Doorway Effect” actually psychologically possible?
Turns out there’s a bit of debate about what this is, it’s called the doorway effect by some psychology researchers. They claim it occurs when we forget items of recent significance immediately after crossing a boundary or a lintel.
But are we so fickle?
A team of researchers at Bond University in Queensland have just finished a study into the effect and one of its authors Dr Oliver Baumann explains to Jesse what they’ve found.