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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon occurs when a person, after having learned some (usually obscure) fact, word, phrase, or other item for the first time, encounters that item again, perhaps several times, shortly after having learned it.

The "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon" was unintentionally coined by readers of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The Minnesota newspaper runs a daily column called "Bulletin Board," in which readers submit humorous or interesting anecdotes. The term was essentially coined when a reader first submitted a story about how, around 1986[1], he or she first heard about the terrorist group known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang and then heard about it again a short while later from a totally different source.

Readers suddenly piled on with their own versions of the phenomenon, which quickly came to be known as the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon. Today, all similar stories are published in Bulletin Boards under the heading "Baader Meinhof Phenomenon."

There are several theories about the psychological explanation of the phenomenon, including a popular one that cites its primary cause as being the recency effect, in which the human brain has a bias that lends increased prominence to new or recently acquired information.

Note that while the name "Baader-Meinhof Gang" may have seemed obscure, the originator of the phrase even claiming "this was many years after they were in the news" it may be because the group is usually referred to as the Red Army Faction (RAF). The group was quite active in the mid-1980s with assassinations and bombings, often NATO military targets, including a string of 10 attacks from December, 1984 to January, 1985. Also in the news, the film Stammheim, by writer and RAF historian Stefan Aust and directed by Reinhard Hauff, about a trial of RAF terrorists, was released in 1986, winning the Berlin Film Festival in February of that year. Mr. Aust also wrote and directed a two-part 1986 television documentary entitled Baader-Meinhof. The film The Baader-Meinhof Complex, directed by Uli Edel and based on Aust's 1985 book of the same name, is scheduled for release in the fall of 2008.

The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon is sometimes confused with the phenomenon of synchronicity, which is a similar but nonetheless different phenomenon.

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