(en) PN: Dear readers, in order to maximize/optimize the impact of this viewpoint, we suggest you read it in two sittings, so you can fully experience the Zeigarnik effect. Do you have anything on your mind? Any physician is and will always be a human being with his own specificities which include his past experiences and his psychological functioning. Amongst these, there is the “Zeigarnik effect” which is little known in Medicine (17 relevant items on Pubmed under “Zeigarnik”, 15 under the combination “Zeigarnik” and “effect”; most of them in psychology journals rather than in medical newspapers). […]
Naviaux, A.-F., Janne, P., & Gourdin, M. (2020). Do physicians suffer or benefit from the Zeigarnik effect? L’Encephale : revue de psychiatrie clinique biologique et therapeutique, 47(6), 616-617. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.encep.2020.08.012 (Original work published 2020)