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Spotlighting Customers' Visual Attention at the Stock, Shelf and Store Levels with the 3S Model
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2019
This article presents a new conceptualization of the in-store search process, the 3S Model, which captures customers’ visual attention at three distinct levels of analysis: Stock, Shelf, and Store. We illustrate the usefulness of our conceptualization through three eye-tracking studies, one from each level of analysis in the 3S Model.
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Self-Presentation: Self-Monitoring and Self-Handicapping
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2020
People can go to great lengths to protect their self-image and present themselves in ways that they want others to see them. Sociologist Erving Goffman presented the idea that a person is like an actor on a stage. Calling his theory dramaturgy, Goffman believed that we use “impression management” to present ourselves to others as we hope to be perceived. Each situation is a new scene, and individuals perform different roles depending on who is present (Goffman, 1959). Think about the way you...
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Social Scripts
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2020
People tend to know what behavior is expected of them in specific, familiar settings. A script is a person’s knowledge about the sequence of events expected in a specific setting (Schank & Abelson, 1977). Essentially, scripts are a particular kind of schema, one containing default values for the features within an event. In the restaurant example, the script's features include the props (e.g., tables, menu, food, and money), the roles to be played (e.g., customer and waiter), the opening...
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Flow Cytometric Analysis of Particle-bound Bet v 1 Allergen in PM10
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2016
Here, we present a protocol to quantify allergen-loaded particles by flow cytometry. Ambient particulate matter particles may act as carriers of adsorbed allergens. We show here that flow cytometry, a method widely used to characterize suspended solids >0.5 µm in diameter, can be used to measure these allergen-loaded particles.
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Quantitation of Endothelial Cell Adhesiveness In Vitro
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2015
We report an in vitro method that allows the quantitation of the actual number of adhesive cells within an endothelial cell monolayer.
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An egocentric perspective makes the person’s own experience the starting point for social judgment. Because thoughts, actions, mistakes, and feelings are vivid to the individual, that internal prominence can be mistaken for external prominence. The resulting estimate reflects what the event feels like from inside, rather than only what an observer can notice.
Limited observer attention provides an important corrective to this bias. While an individual may focus intensely on a personal mistake or emotional state, other people have less attention available and may not register the event to the same extent. This mismatch helps explain why behavior can feel highly conspicuous without being equally salient to others.
A personal mistake may feel unusually memorable because the actor has direct access to every detail of the experience. That vivid self-awareness can inflate expectations about how long the event remains in other people’s minds. This matters for social judgment because people may evaluate future interactions based on an exaggerated sense of their past visibility.
Public-performance anxiety can be understood partly through a mismatch between internal experience and external attention. When individuals treat their own nervousness or behavior as especially visible, they may expect stronger social evaluation than the situation warrants. The bias therefore connects self-awareness with embarrassment and can shape how people interpret ordinary reactions during public performance.
Studies can examine whether people accurately estimate how much others notice their appearance, actions, mistakes, or emotional states. Researchers can also consider whether individuals overestimate how memorable their behavior is. These questions connect private judgments with social evaluation and help clarify when self-focused experience diverges from the limited attention available to observers.
The bias helps explain why someone might avoid a social situation after an embarrassing moment. If a person assumes that others noticed and will remember the event, anticipated social judgment can feel more consequential than the observers’ actual attention. In psychology, this makes the Spotlight Effect relevant to avoidance, embarrassment, and public-performance anxiety.
Interventions informed by this research would aim to promote more accurate social perceptions rather than simply dismissing embarrassment. Recognizing the difference between vivid self-experience and limited observer attention can help people reconsider how noticeable or memorable their behavior is. This perspective is relevant when addressing distorted expectations about social evaluation in everyday situations.