Spotlight effect

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The spotlight effect describes a phenomenon in social psychology . He describes the imagination that other people pay you much more attention than they actually are. People with social phobia are particularly often and severely affected.

The effect occurs, for example, with mishaps in everyday life in which one fears to be the center of interest of the people around, while in reality they perceive themselves less than expected. Among other things, this also takes place specifically in the love life of the person concerned. They think they get more attention from their crush than is actually the case; every behavior of the crush is associated with themselves. Especially in the area of ​​social media, as the person is often sociophobic. Among other things, sayings to pictures of the crush or similar are always related to the own person without the crush possibly knowing that the person concerned exists. The existence of the effect has been proven empirically.

literature

• Thomas Gilovich , Victoria Husted Medvec , Kenneth Savitsky : The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one's own actions and appearance . In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology . tape 78 , no. 2 , 2000, pp. 211 , doi : 10.1037 / 0022-3514.78.2.211 (English, The Spotlight-Effect [PDF]).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on the spotlight effect in Flexikon , a wiki from DocCheck , accessed on February 6, 2015.
2. ^ Claudia Wüstenhagen: Das Ich im Rampenlicht , Die Zeit - Website, February 22, 2016. Accessed on February 23, 2016.