7 Interesting Phenomena of a Human Mind - Page 4 of 9

Spotlight effect

It is the tendency to overestimate the amount that other people notice your appearance or behavior. The reasoning behind the spotlight effect comes from innate tendency to forget that although one is the center of one’s own world, one is not the center of everyone else’s. Many professionals in social psychology encourage people to be conscious of the spotlight effect and to allow this phenomenon to moderate the extent to which one believes one is in a social spotlight.