A visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location are perceived to be displaced from one another.

Synonym of cutaneous rabbit illusion

(economics) The hypothesis that poorer economies will tend to have faster rates of economic growth than richer ones.

plural of effective nuclear charge

(psychology) The phenomenon whereby people tend to develop a preference for something merely because they are familiar with it.

(aviation) The phenomenon where an aircraft's radar with limited directional capabilities receives strong echoes from the ground, swamping target signals and generating a triangular radar trace.

The tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to be succeeded by overengineered, bloated systems, due to inflated expectations and overconfidence.

(software engineering) An antipattern in which a system is made so customizable as to become a (poor) replica of the development platform used to create it.

An electrical phenomenon that produces an ionic wind that transfers its momentum to surrounding neutral particles, observed on an asymmetric capacitor when high voltage is applied to the electrodes.

A hypothesized phenomenon by which people tend to perceive that mass media messages have a greater effect on others than on themselves, based on personal biases.