Spotlight Effect

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Cognition

Foundational Lexiconthinking everyone notices
Executive Parlanceself-focus bias
Scholarly Discourseegocentric salience
Babel ZenithSpotlight Effect
Origin: Social Psychology

Etymology & Meaning

Overestimating how much others notice your appearance or actions.

In the Boardroom

Thinking everyone noticed your presentation stumble.

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