Oct 14, 2025
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do people just get drunk and then ??? not hate themselves for weeks afterwards because they did/said something embarrassing. and then they don’t try to fix it by saying “sorry i was embarrassing” to people, just to find out that they’ve been a victim of the spotlight effect and everyone does in fact Not Hate You?
interesting. personally, i could never.
People have a cognitive bias where they over-estimate how noticeable their embarrassing behavior is to others. This is called "The spotlight effect". Photo : tian2992 / flickr
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Spotlight effect
Visual representation of the spotlight effect
spotlight effect // 7.3.17