"kleptomnesia" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "Coined by Dan Gilbert in or before 1999.",
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          "ref": "2015 January 2, Adam Grant, “The Biggest Reason We Steal Other People’s Ideas”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-03-20",
          "text": "Kleptomnesia happens due to a pragmatic, but peculiar, feature of how human memory is wired. When we encode information, we tend to pay more attention to the content than the source. Once we accept a piece of information as true, we no longer need to worry about where we acquired it.",
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          "ref": "2016 January 5, CM Bauman, BAR Hege, R Kleckley…, “The “make your own religion” project”, in Teaching Theology & Religion, volume 19, number 1, pages 99–110",
          "text": "Chad Bauman has offered a great model for the “make your own religion” exercise, and I will engage in repeated acts of “kleptomnesia” in appropriating his ideas.",
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          "ref": "2016 July 19, Tanya Basu, “Melania Trump's Speechwriters Apparently Suffer From Kleptomnesia”, in Inverse, archived from the original on 2021-10-01",
          "text": "It’s fair to say that psychologists haven’t exactly figured out a way around kleptomnesia, and maybe Melania Trump’s speech might instigate research into this fuzzy area.",
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          "ref": "2017, Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, New York: Penguin Books, page 3",
          "text": "We're all vulnerable to “kleptomnesia”—accidentally remembering the ideas of others as our own.",
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          "ref": "2019, Andy Cope, The Little Book of Being Brilliant, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, page 169",
          "text": "Like every other author, I'm vulnerable to 'kleptomnesia' – accidentally remembering the ideas of others as your own.",
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          "ref": "2021, Lisa Grossman Liu, The Transparent, Concurrent, and Collaborative Health Record (thesis), New York: Columbia University, →DOI, page xviii",
          "text": "I worry that I will wake up tomorrow in a cold sweat, having forgotten to thank someone who assuredly deserved it. Everyone is vulnerable to \"kleptomnesia,\" or accidentally remembering the ideas of others as our own.",
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        "(neologism) The situation where a person comes up with an idea that they believe to be original, but which was in fact created by someone else and previously encountered by the person."
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          "ref": "2015 January 2, Adam Grant, “The Biggest Reason We Steal Other People’s Ideas”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-03-20",
          "text": "Kleptomnesia happens due to a pragmatic, but peculiar, feature of how human memory is wired. When we encode information, we tend to pay more attention to the content than the source. Once we accept a piece of information as true, we no longer need to worry about where we acquired it.",
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