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The Spotlight Script
THE HIDDEN RULE
“Everyone is watching, scoring, and remembering.” The spotlight effect casts a full-time audience for your every word — an audience that, measurably, is thinking about itself.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
MECHANISMS
Spotlight Effect
The spotlight effect is the tendency to overestimate how much other people notice one's own actions, appearance, and social missteps. Controlled exper
The illusion of transparency
The illusion of transparency is the tendency to overestimate how visible our internal states — nervousness, embarrassment, even lies — are to other pe
Egocentric Anchoring and Insufficient Adjustment
Egocentric anchoring and insufficient adjustment is the cognitive process underlying both the spotlight effect and the illusion of transparency. The a
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SCIENCE
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