Reading a word at the same moment you hear it on tv or radio: is there a name for that?

[elocs]

I was just watching an old episode of Law and Order on Netflix while looking over the DU homepage. There is a story about an explosion in Brazil and I just read "Rio de Janeiro" at the exact moment one of the characters on tv said the word.

We've all likely experienced this. I know I have before, but is there a name for this phenomena?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Synchronicity, or the "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon."

http://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomenon/

[elocs]

3. When I hear a word at the same moment I read it, that is odd coincidence.

Especially a word that is not ordinary.

Interesting, thanks for the response.

[woo me with science]

5. Baader-Meinhof is not exactly the same thing.

When the events occur simultaneously by chance, as described in the OP, that is synchronicity, pure coincidence.

Baader-Meinhof, by contrast, has to do with the mind's tendency to seek out patterns and involves events that do not occur simultaneously. It refers to a cognitive bias in which your mind will selectively notice a repetition of something you recently noticed or encountered for the first time.

[HopeHoops]

2. Coincidence

[meow2u3]

4. I call it sheer coincidence

I have a background in psychology and I don't see why we should have a fancy name for coincidental phenomena.

[Ptah]

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