It’s not your imagination — scientists say other people are probably watching, even when you think they aren’t

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• A psychology study suggests that we underestimate how much people pay attention to us. We think we walk around in an "invisibility cloak."
• But when they do pay attention to us, people aren't necessarily focusing on the flaws that we're fixating on.
• There are some benefits to realizing that other people are thinking about you as much as you're thinking about them.

I like the catchy term that scientists recently came up with to describe a common psychological phenomenon: the "invisibility cloak illusion." I don't quite like what it describes.

According to the scientists, and their 2016 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, we incorrectly assume that other people aren't paying nearly as much attention to us as we are to them.

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