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emotion
You think your nerves are obvious to everyone around.
Research shows people overestimate how effectively others read their internal states, a phenomenon known as the illusion of transparency.
The deception-based experiment described was conducted in 1998 by Gilovich, Savitsky, and Medvec, not the 2003 paper by Savitsky & Gilovich.
You are far better at masking your feelings than you think.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Savitsky & Gilovich, 2003
- What the check found
- The core psychological phenomenon (the illusion of transparency) is well-documented, but the claim incorrectly attributes the 1998 'deception' study to the 2003 paper.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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