Having a great little conversation with Alexandra deschamps-sonsino about how she doesn’t like watching herself giving talks and presentations. I expect that applies to most of us (including myself), but I did say this could be the the spotlight effect in full effect?.
…we tend to overestimate how much our actions and appearance are noticed by others, something social psychologists call the “spotlight effect.”
Alex had a look at the wikipedia page about the effect and asked me how does this work with the craze for selfies?
I was totally stumped… I have no idea but some PhD research student needs to look into this… Seems like a fruitful area of research? I’m sure Sherry Turkle (again) would have lots to say about this.
The spotlight effect in times of the #selfie? How does this work? http://t.co/4n95OcZPHn