Episode 47- The Spotlight Effect

Have you ever walked into a room and suddenly felt like everyone noticed what you were wearing? Maybe you stumbled over a word during a presentation, sent a text with a typo, spilled coffee on your shirt, or posted something online and spent the rest of the day wondering what everyone thought. But were people really paying that much attention? This experience is known as the spotlight effect, our tendency to overestimate how much other people notice our appearance, behavior, and mistakes. In ...