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The “spotlight effect” exists because your brain assumes everyone is watching you. They’re not, but your brain loves cinema.

✗ FAKE
The spotlight effect is a real finding by Gilovich and colleagues that people overestimate how much others notice them. The description is accurate apart from the cinema joke.

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