ScienceActually<p>Semantic satiation is the common psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose its meaning for the listener, who then perceives the message as little more than repeated sounds.</p><p>This image comes from a scene in Ted Lasso where Ted accidentally says the word 'plan' too many times in a short timespan, causing his brain's association with the word to lose value.</p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sciencefacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefacts</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/semanticsatiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>semanticsatiation</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/repetition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repetition</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/repeatingwords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repeatingwords</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/tedlasso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tedlasso</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/plan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plan</span></a></p>