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Semantic satiation happens when repeating word or a phrase over and over makes it temporarily lose its meaning. This was first written about in the psychological literature by Titchener, in case you search it online and find that name.

Because word repetition causes defusion (in the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy way), these professors could actually be more cognitively flexible than other people, at least in terms of whatever it is that they're grading.

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[-] whileloop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It doesn't happen much. But in a language with more boilerplate, like Java, it can happen very rarely.

[-] feef@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm, been a java dev for over 6 years and have never had that happen :D I can recommend intellisense and Lombok for the boiler plate though.

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