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  • A memory phenomenon in which a person appears familiar, especially when recognized in an unusual context, without recalling specific information about him or her.

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  • BOB experience
  • butcher-on-the-bus phenomenon

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  • The phenomenon takes its name from the example given by Mandler (1980, pp. 252-253): “Consider seeing a man on a bus whom you are sure that you have seen before; you “know” him in that sense. Such a recognition is usually followed by a search process asking, in effect, where could I know him from? Who is he? The search process generates likely contexts (Do I know him from work; is he a movie star, a TV commentator, the milkman?). Eventually the search may end with the insight, that’s the butcher from the supermarket!“

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  • Frank Arnould

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