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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
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Imagine you’ve just found a great pair of pants at the thrift store. They fit perfectly and look amazing. When you wear them to your friend’s party the next day, though, it becomes obvious why someone gave them up: The zipper creeps down. You keep darting into corners to adjust it, but eventually you get drawn into a conversation. Someone you’ve be...
Before a team meeting at work, you overhear a group of coworkers discussing current events. You jump into the conversation, eager to share your opinion. After a long moment of silence, someone says, “Actually, we were talking about something else.” You apologize for interrupting and back away as you look around nervously, convinced the entire room ...
The spotlight effect can also work the other way, causing you to think everyone noticed something you’re particularly proud of. Perhaps you’ve just finished a presentation to your seminar. You spent a long time preparing and know you did well, particularly since your research covered several obscure points. “How was it?” you ask a classmate as you ...
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.
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.
focuses on the manifestations and implications of the spotlight effect across a host of everyday social phenomena. Most of us stand out in our own minds.
The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one s own actions and appearance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. . Google Scholar
The spotlight effect describes how people tend to believe that others are paying more attention to them than they actually are—in other words, our tendency to always feel like we are “in the spotlight.”
