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The Spotlight Effect and the Heckler's Playbook
Daniel's question starts in an urgent care waiting room and ends on a Broadway stage. Why does a random crowd feel more hostile than a paying audience? We dig into the spotlight effect (people guessed twice as many observers would notice them as actually did), the illusion of transparency, and the habituation study where eighteen string players' heart rates dropped below exercise baseline by their third performance. Then we get into the hostile audience: Paul F. Tompkins on not assuming hostility, the five-second classification rule, the ten-second budget, and why Patti LuPone snatching a…
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