Cognitive bias in which people think they are being noticed more than they really are
Not to be confused with Spotlight fallacy.
The spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. Being that one is constantly in the center of one's own world, an accurate evaluation of how much one is noticed by others is uncommon. The reason for the spotlight effect is the innate tendency to forget that although one is the center of one's own world, one is not the center of everyone else's. This tendency is especially prominent when one does something atypical.[1]
Research has empirically shown that such drastic over-estimation of one's effect on others is widely common. Many professionals in social psychology encourage people to be conscious of the spotlight effect and to allow this phenomenon to moderate the extent to which one believes one is in a social spotlight.[2]
^Denton-Mendoza, R. (2012-06-05). "The Spotlight Effect". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
^Gordon, A. M. (2013-11-21). "Have You Fallen Prey to the "Spotlight Effect?"". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2020-01-15.
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