Woozle Effect Definition

Origin of Woozle Effect

• A reference to the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) by English author A. A. Milne (1882-1956), in which the characters Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet follow their own tracks in the snow, believing them to be the tracks of the imaginary “Woozle". The term in its precise form is believed to have been coined by Beverly Houghton in a paper entitled Review of Research on Women Abuse delivered at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology held in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA, 7-10 November 1979: see the 1980 quotation. However, earlier mentions of the Woozle in this context exist.

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