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71Choice blindness — In psychology, choice blindness is a phenomenon in which subjects fail to detect conspicuous mismatches between their intended (and expected) choice and the actual outcome. Writing in Science , psychologist Petter Johansson and coworkers describe …
72Legal blindness — The definition varies from country to country. In the United States, the definition of legal blindness is: {{}}Visual acuity of 20/200 or worse in the better eye with corrective lenses (20/200 means that a person must be at 20 feet from an eye… …
73River blindness — Onchocerciasis, a disease caused by a parasitic worm (Onchocerca volvulus) which is transmitted to persons by biting blackflies (buffalo gnats) that breed in fast flowing rivers. The adult worms can live for up to 15 years in nodules beneath the… …
74psychic blindness — The term psychic blindness is indebted to the Greek noun psuchè (life breath, spirit, soul, mind). It was used by the French internist Hippolyte Bernheim (1840 1919) to denote a perceptual response that may occur during hypnosis, after the… …
75face blindness — n. Difficulty recognizing faces or telling faces apart. Also: face blindness. face blind adj. Example Citations: New findings from researchers at Harvard and elsewhere suggest that a surprising number of people are face blind, so bad at… …
76color blindness — Synonyms and related words: Christmas disease, Daltonism, Hartnup disease, Werdnig Hoffmann disease, achromatic vision, achromatopsia, albinism, cystic fibrosis, deuteranopia, dichromatic vision, dichromatism, dysautonomia, green blindness,… …
77colour blindness — noun genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue • Syn: ↑color blindness, ↑color vision deficiency, ↑colour vision deficiency • Derivationally related forms: ↑colour blind (for: ↑color blindness), ↑ …
78snow blindness — noun : inflammation and photophobia caused by exposure of the unprotected eyes to ultraviolet rays reflected from fields of snow or ice suffering the excruciating agony of snow blindness after two weeks of futile searching in the empty plains… …
79Willful blindness — Criminal law Part of …
80Repetition blindness — (RB) is a phenomenon observed in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. Subjects are less likely to detect the repetition of a target stimulus than they are to detect a second, different target.For example, a subject s chances of correctly reporting… …
