The Spotlight Effect
Have you ever felt like everyone is paying attention to you, even when they're not? This phenomenon, known as the spotlight effect, describes our tendency to overestimate how much others notice and care about our appearance, behavior, or actions. In reality, people are often more focused on themselves than on us.
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The Spotlight Effect
It refers to our tendency to overestimate how much other people notice about us: we tend to think there is a spotlight on us, highlighting all of our mistakes or flaws, for all the world to see.
The spotlight effect is the result of egocentrism: we see our entire existence ...
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