Baskerville effect

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Baskerville effects 复数

释义与例句

n.
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    The alleged self-fulfilling prophecy that there is an increase in rate of mortality through heart attacks on days considered unlucky because of the psychological stress this causes on superstitious people.

词源

Named after the Baskerville family from Arthur Conan Doyle's crime novel The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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