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Jul 30, 2020 · The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one's own actions and appearance. DOI:...
This research provides evidence that people overestimate the extent to which their actions and appearance are noted by others, a phenomenon dubbed the spotlight effect.
- Thomas Gilovich, Victoria Husted Medvec, Kenneth Savitsky
- 2000
Studies 4 and 5 provide evidence supporting an anchoring-and-adjustment interpretation of the spotlight effect. In particular, people appear to anchor on their own rich phenomenological experience and then adjust--insufficiently--to take into account the perspective of others.
- Thomas Gilovich, Victoria Husted Medvec, Kenneth Savitsky
- 2000
As an initial test of the spotlight effect, we conducted an experiment in which our target participants were required to don a potentially embarrassing T-shirt before briefly entering a room...
Our review focuses on two biases in particular, the spotlight effect, or people s tendency to overestimate the extent to which their behavior and appearance are noticed and evaluated by others, and the illusion of transparency, or people s tendency to overestimate the extent to which their internal states leak out and are detectable by others.
- Thomas Gilovich, Kenneth Savitsky
- 1999
Jan 1, 2002 · The results of Study 3 suggest that this bias stems in part from a failure to appreciate the extent to which observers are preoccupied with managing their own actions. Discussion focuses on how this corollary of the “spotlight effect” can contribute to social anxiety and gnawing regrets of inaction.
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Evidence is provided that people overestimate the extent to which their actions and appearance are noted by others, a phenomenon dubbed the spotlight effect, and that people appear to anchor on their own rich phenomenological experience and then adjust to take into account the perspective of others.
