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perception
You think your inner state is visible to everyone.
The 'illusion of transparency' is a verified psychological phenomenon where individuals overestimate the extent to which their internal states are visible to others.
The provided source material references experiments on public speaking anxiety, not the drink-deception experiment described in the claim.
Your anxiety about being exposed is usually a solitary experience.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Gilovich, Savitsky, and Medvec, 1998
- What the check found
- The core psychological phenomenon is real and well-documented, but the specific experimental evidence cited is not present in the provided source material.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.