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Circa 100 Kilometer von Melinda Henske entfernt sitzt ihr Ex-Mann Martin Schneider (54), Frührentner, auf dem Balkon seiner Einzimmerwohnung und liest in der Juniausgabe der Fachzeitschrift Science.

MARTIN

Ja. Hallo zusammen, ich bin der Martin Schneider, ich/

Nee, nee. Nicht so, gleich in medias res.

MARTIN

Ah. Dann lese ich am besten vor1: „Psychologists have long known that stimuli are judged in the context of the other relevant stimuli that surround them in space or precede them in time, and the perceived aggressiveness of a particular behavior will naturally depend on the aggressiveness of the other behaviors the observer is seeing or has seen. When instances of a concept become less prevalent—for example, when unprovoked attacks and invasions decline—the context in which new instances are judged changes as well. If most behaviors are less aggressive than they once were, then some behaviors will seem more aggressive than they once did, which may lead observers to mistakenly conclude that the prevalence of aggression has not declined.“

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MARTIN

Augenblick ... Hier: „When instances of a concept become less prevalent, the concept may expand to include instances that it previously excluded, thereby masking the magnitude of its own decline. This phenomenon — which we call “prevalence induced concept change” — can be a problem.“