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title: "List of effects"
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This is a list of names for observable phenomena that contain the word “effect”, amplified by reference(s) to their respective fields of study.

== A ==
Abscopal effect (cancer treatments) (immune system) (medical treatments) (radiation therapy)
Accelerator effect (economics)
Accordion effect (physics) (waves)
Acousto-optic effect (nonlinear optics) (waves)
Additive genetic effects (genetics)
Aharonov–Bohm effect (quantum mechanics)
Al Jazeera effect (Al Jazeera) (media issues)
Alienation effect (acting techniques) (Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques) (film theory) (metafictional techniques) (theatre)
Allais effect (fringe physics)
Allee effect (biology)
Ambiguity effect (cognitive biases)
Anrep effect (cardiology) (medicine)
Antenna effect (digital electronics) (electronic design automation)
Anti-greenhouse effect (atmospheric dynamics) (atmospheric science) (astronomy) (planetary atmospheres)
Askaryan effect (particle physics)
Asymmetric blade effect (aerodynamics)
Audience effect (psychology) (social psychology)
Auger effect (atomic physics) (foundational quantum physics)
Aureole effect (atmospheric optical phenomena) (scientific terminology)
Autler–Townes effect (atomic, molecular, and optical physics) (atomic physics) (quantum optics)
Autokinetic effect (vision)
Avalanche effect (cryptography)
Averch–Johnson effect (economics)

== B ==
Baader-Meinhof effect / Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (psychology)
Balassa–Samuelson effect (economics)
Baldwin effect (evolutionary biology) (selection)
Balloon-carried light effect (balloons) (culture) (entertainment)
Bambi effect (hunting) (psychology stubs)
Bandwagon effect (cognitive biases) (crowd psychology) (economics effects) (metaphors) (propaganda techniques)
Bank effect (marine propulsion) (nautical terms) (water)
Barkhausen effect (condensed matter) (magnetism)
Barnett effect (condensed matter) (magnetism)
Barnum effect (psychology)
Baskerville effect (cardiology)
Bauschinger effect (classical mechanics) (materials science)
Beaujolais effect (Ada programming language)
Ben Franklin effect (emotion) (psychology)
Bernoulli effect (equations) (fluid dynamics) (wind power)
Beta-silicon effect (physical organic chemistry)
Bezold effect (optical illusions) (psychological theories)
Bezold–Brücke effect (optical illusions)
Biefeld–Brown effect (physical phenomena) (propulsion)
Big-fish–little-pond effect (educational psychology) (pedagogy)
Birthday-number effect (psychology)
Black drop effect (astronomical transits)
Blazhko effect (astronomy)
Blocking effect (psychology)
Bloom (shader effect) (3D computer graphics) (demo effects)
Bohr effect (hematology) (hemoproteins) (respiratory physiology)
Boomerang effect (psychology) (social psychology) (psychology)
Bouba/kiki effect (cognitive science)
Bowditch effect (medicine)
Bradley effect (American political terms) (elections in the United States) (political history of the United States) (political neologisms) (politics and race) (polling) (psephology) (racism)
Bridgman effect (electricity) (electromagnetism)
Brookings effect (atmospheric science) (Curry County, Oregon) (Oregon coast) (Oregon geography) (winds)
Brown Willy effect (geography of Cornwall) (mesoscale meteorology)
Bruce effect (reproduction)
Bullwhip effect (distribution, retailing, and wholesaling)
Butterfly effect (chaos theory) (physical phenomena) (stability theory)
Bystander effect (crowd psychology) (social phenomena)
Bystander effect (radiobiology) (radiobiology)

== C ==
Cage effect (chemistry)
Calendar effect (behavioral finance)  (market trends)
Callendar effect (atmospheric science) (climate) (climate change)
Captodative effect (organic chemistry)
Capture effect (broadcast engineering) (radio) (radio communications/) (telecommunications) (wireless communications)
Carnoustie effect (golf) (golf terminology)
Carryover effect (cooking techniques) (food and drink)
Cascade effect (ecology)
Cascade effect (spaceflight)
Casimir effect (quantum field theory) (physical phenomena)
Castle thunder (sound effect) (in-jokes) (sound effects)
Catapult effect (electromagnetism)
Catch-up effect (economics effects)
Catfish effect (human resource management) (management) (organizational studies and human resource management) (social psychology)
Cause and effect
Ceiling effect (medical treatment) (statistics)
Channel capture effect (ethernet) (network topology)
Cheerio effect (fluid mechanics) (physics)
Cherenkov effect (experimental particle physics) (fundamental physics concepts) (particle physics) (special relativity)
Chilling effect (law) (censorship) (freedom of expression) (American legal terms)
Chimney effect
Chorus effect (audio effects) (audio engineering) (effects units) (sound recording)
Christiansen effect (optical filters)
Christofilos effect (particle physics)
Cinderella effect (child abuse)
Cis effect (inorganic chemistry)
Clientele effect (economics) (finance)
Cluster effect (economics effects)
CNN effect (civil–military relations) (CNN) (news media) (warfare of the modern era)
Coandă effect (aerodynamics) (boundary layers) (physical phenomena)
Coattail effect (political terms)
Cobra effect (Economics)
Cocktail party effect (acoustical signal processing) (attention)
Cohort effect
Common-ion effect (ions) (physical chemistry)
Compton effect (astrophysics) (atomic physics) (foundational quantum physics) (observational astronomy) (quantum electrodynamics) (X-rays)
Contrast effect (cognition) (cognitive biases) (perception) (vision)
Coolidge effect (jokes) (sexual attraction)
Coriolis effect (atmospheric dynamics) (classical mechanics) (force) (physical phenomena) (urban legends)
Cotton effect (atomic, molecular, and optical physics) (polarization)
Cotton–Mouton effect (magnetism) (optics)
Crabtree effect (biochemistry)
Cross-race effect (face recognition)
CSI effect (criminal law) (criminology) (CSI television series) (psychology) (television terminology)
Cupertino effect (computers) (spell checking)
Cytopathic effect (microbiology terms)

== D ==
Déjà vu effect
De Haas–van Alphen effect (condensed matter) (magnetism) (quantum physics)
(de Sitter effect: see) Geodetic effect (general relativity)
Debye–Falkenhagen effect
Decoy effect (consumer behavior) (decision theory) (economic theories) (finance theory) (marketing)
Delay (audio effect) (audio effects) (effects units) (musical techniques)
Dellinger effect (radio communications)
Dember effect (electrical phenomena) (physics)
Demo effect (demoscene)
Demonstration effect (human behavior) (sociological terms)
Denomination effect (behavioral economics)
Diderot effect (anthropology) (consumer behaviour)
Ding Hai effect (economy of Hong Kong) (Hong Kong culture)
Direct effect (European Union law)
Disposal tax effect (economics and finance) (finance) (taxation)
Disposition effect (economics and finance)
Dole effect (climatology) (oxygen) (paleoclimatology) (photosynthesis)
Domino effect (physics) (politics)
Doppler effect (Doppler effects) (radio frequency propagation) (wave mechanics)
Downing effect (psychology)
Dresselhaus effect (physics)
Droste effect (artistic techniques)
Dunning–Kruger effect (personality) (social psychology)

== E ==
Eagle effect (antibiotic resistance) (pharmacology)
Early effect (transistors)
Eberhard effect (science of photography)
Edge effect (ecological succession) (ecology)
Edison effect (atomic physics) (electricity) (Thomas Edison) (vacuum tubes)
Efimov effect (physics)
Einstein effect (disambiguation), several different effects in physics
Einstein–de Haas effect (science)
Electro-optic effect (nonlinear optics)
Electrocaloric effect (cooling technology) (heat pumps)
Electron-cloud effect (particle accelerators) (physics)
Electroviscous effects (colloid chemistry) (surface chemistry)
ELIZA effect (artificial intelligence) (human–computer interaction) (propositional fallacies)
Embedding effect (environmental economics)
EMC effect (particle physics)
Emerson effect (photosynthesis)
Endowment effect (behavioral finance) (cognitive biases) (psychological theories)
Enhanced Permeability and Retention effect (medicine)
Eötvös effect (geodesy) (topography)
Epps effect (econometrics) (statistical terminology) (statistics)
Ettinghausen effect (condensed matter) (electrodynamics) (thermodynamics)
Evershed effect (physics) (solar phenomena)
Exciter (effect) (audio effects) (effects units)