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The Spotlight effect mimics what you'd see on the stage of a theater, or from a police helicopter if you're a villain in a Saturday morning cartoon. Some may scoff at the new options, but I like them.

In the groundbreaking paper The Spotlight Effect in Social Judgment: An Egocentric Bias in Estimates of the Salience of One's Own Actions and Appearance, published in 2000, social psychology ...