Talk:Spotlight effect

Expansion
This article has been expanded as part of my class's participation in the APS Wikipedia Initiative. Class is History and Systems of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Spring 2013. It is no longer a stub. James Council (talk) 01:42, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The additions need to be completely rewritten for these to be encyclopedic in style and structure. I didn't simply delete them, because some of the material may be useful to keep. --JorisvS (talk) 11:57, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

We are working on expanding this article further, also participating in the APS Wikipedia Initiative for Social Psychology class, Pacific Lutheran University, Fall 2013. Intend to raise classs and importance of article further. Some grammatical errors have been fixed, further information added, and links and references incorporated. Encyclopedic style and structure still needs further improvement. Westondg (talk) 12:13, 26 November 2013

Further improvements
Some students from my current PSYC 480 History and Systems class at North Dakota State University have chosen to improve the article further. I believe it is much better now. Thanks JorisvS for your comments and advice. Hope you approve of the current effort. J.R. Council (talk) 16:29, 8 May 2014 (UTC)

Reference Suggestion
As a graduate psychology student, I appreciate the effort it appears has been put into improving this article. It reads well thus far and is easily understood. What would make this article more complete and comprehensive are more credible sources of information. In this regard, I suggest referencing Exploring Social Psychology (2015) by Myers. He does an excellent job shedding light on the spotlight effect, and I think the information his text provides would help to further enhance the article content. LaurStuart (talk) 16:55, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

In depth look at The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one's own actions and appearance
The spotlight effect is a cognitive bias that makes people believe there is more attention on them than there actually is. This cognitive bias causes individuals to think that they stand out more than others when this just is not true. One study from The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2000) has shown that out of one-hundred-nine people, only 28% of people actually admitted to looking at a target's shirt. In the Study a target was asked to go into a room wearing a variety of shirts, some would be embarrassing while others would not. The evidence suggests that the targets who were wearing potentially embarrassing shirts were the ones who overestimated the number of people actively judging them. Another study from The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2000) was performed to test participants in a none embarrassing environment, seventy-nine participants were chosen, and from the seventy-nine participants, six women and nine men were chosen to be targets while the remaining sixty-four participants were there to observe. Targets would wear a shirt with a highly praised person's face on it( ex. Bob Marley, Martin Luther King jr, and Jerry Seinfeld). Once the target selected a shirt they would walk into a room with the observers, and afterward, the data would be collected. The results of the study showed that while the targets predicted about 45% of participants saw their shirts, less than 10% actually did. These studies show that the spotlight effect cognitive bias affects almost everyone to some degree and that while we might think of ourselves as the center of attention most people don't actually see us in that spotlight.

WORKS CITED Gilovich, T., Medvec, V. H., & Savitsky, K. (2000). The spotlight effect in social judgment: An egocentric bias in estimates of the salience of one's own actions and appearance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 211-222. 67.207.237.34 (talk) 22:47, 17 February 2023 (UTC)