Spotlight effect

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The spotlight effect is the psychological phenomenon by which people tend to believe they are being noticed more than they really are. As individuals are often at the center of their own world, an accurate evaluation of how much they are noticed by others is uncommon.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Spotlight effect”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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