Teddy Bear Effect
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The Teddy Bear Effect refers to the phenomenon where a passive listener appears to impart wisdom to a speaker without doing anything other than listening. People who ask someone a question expecting to learn something from the answer often discover the answer for themselves simply through the act of phrasing the question verbally. The listener is compared to a Teddy Bear because evidently a stuffed animal would have served the same purpose.
In medicine, the Teddy Bear Effect is sometimes compared to the Placebo Effect.
[edit] See also
- Effective listening
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