Spotlight effect in psychology

Spotlight Effect Geoffrey Sutton & Bing AI, 2023

The spotlight effect is a cognitive bias based on observations that people overestimate the extent to which others notice, judge, and remember their appearance and behavior. That is, people sense they are in the spotlight.

The spotlight effect links cognitive functioning to self-awareness - see the SCOPES model.

For example, see GILOVICH, T., MEDVEC, V. H., & SAVITSKV, K. (2000).

GILOVICH, T., MEDVEC, V. H., & SAVITSKV, K. (2000). 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, 78(2), 211–222.

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