2 ideas from Kenneth Savitsky, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.
Researchers had a student wear a T-shirt with an embarrassing image into a room of strangers, then asked the wearer to guess what fraction of people had noticed it. Wearers guessed…
— Thomas Gilovich, Victoria Husted Medvec, and Kenneth Savitsky, The Spotlight Effect in Social Judgment: An Egocentric Bias in Estimates of the Salience of One's Own Actions and Appearance
In a 1998 study, people who had just told a lie guessed that far more observers could tell they were lying than actually could, and people forced to taste something disgusting beli…
— Thomas Gilovich, Kenneth Savitsky & Victoria Husted Medvec, The Illusion of Transparency: Biased Assessments of Others' Ability to Read One's Emotional States