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Familiarity Contraction Principle

May 8, 2011

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Futurist Thomas Frey:  The first time a person gets into a car and drives to some place new, the discovery process causes a heightened sense of awareness and the perception that time has slowed down. Each subsequent trip to that same destination involves fewer discoveries, less awareness, and the perception of less time spent to get there.

 

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