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Social psychology

overestimating how much others notice one's appearance and behavior.

In social psychology, spotlight effect refers to overestimating how much others notice one's appearance and behavior. This meaning comes from Gilovich (2000) in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.[1]

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Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., & Savitsky, 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. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.78.2.211

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