One experiment is described in which repeated exposure of male college students to pornography " caused decreased interest in it, less response to it and no lasting effect, " although it appears that the satiation effect does wear off eventually ( " Once more " ).
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The dissertation presents several experiments that demonstrate the operation of the semantic satiation effect in various cognitive tasks such as rating words and figures that are presented repeatedly in a short time, verbally repeating words then grouping them into concepts, adding numbers after repeating them out loud, and bilingual translations of words repeated in one of the two languages.