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ideomotor effect
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Definition: The ideomotor effect occurs in things like automatic writing, Ouija Boards and dowsing when people attribute the movement of objects in their hands to outside, supernatural forces when in fact they themselves are responsible for the movement - although they honestly do not realize this.

Also Known As: automatism

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