Zelig effect, also known as the “chameleon effect”, occurs when you have a frontal brain lobe injury. This rare syndrome was named after Zelig because of a possible patient, Leonard Zelig, who lived in the United States in the 1920s and who inspired Woody Allen to create the eponymous film in 1993, Zelig. It was inspired by this syndrome that the essay “Zelig Effect” was created. Where a man tries to mimic the environment until the moment he really gets it, and environment and man become one.
