Rashomon effect in psychology

Eyewitnesses 2023

The Rashomon effect is a term for the observation that eyewitnesses provide different accounts of the same event.

The effect is named after the crime drama Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) in which four witnesses describe a murder in different ways.

Levin et al. (2021) consider a remedy for the Rashomon effect. Perhaps an application of their findings beyond their focus would be as follows:

Recognize that there are many different ways to see the world,

Accept that people have different ways of knowing things,

Make sure everyone is included in a decision process

Reference

Phillip S Levin, Steven A Gray, Christian Möllmann, Adrian C Stier, Perception and Conflict in Conservation: The Rashomon Effect, BioScience, Volume 71, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 64–72, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa117

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