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How To Be More Persuasive, Get What You Want, & Leave A Better Impact On Friends, Family, & Strangers With Vanessa Bohns, PhD

The Liz Moody Podcast

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The Invisibility Cloak Illusion and the Spotlight Effect

The invisibility cloak illusion is a phenomenon that makes people feel self-conscious. In an experiment, Erica Boothby asked people how much they thought the people around them were noticing what they were wearing. People who just came in their ordinary clothes had no reason to be self-conscious and overestimated how much other people were paying attention to them. They actually were being observed more than they realized.

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