来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论 第16集 第16集》

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  And I basically feel this is the end of the world,
  我甚至感觉这是世界末日
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  this is humiliating and everybody notices. And so the question is,
  这实在太丢脸 而且每个人都注意到了 问题是
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  how many people notice when something happens? And the spotlight effect--Well,
  当这发生时 有多少人真的注意到了呢 焦点效应就是
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  before talking about my favorite experiment ever,
  在讨论我最喜欢的实验之前
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  there is an episode of "The Simpsons"
  我先播一段《辛普森一家》
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  that provides a beautiful illustration of the spotlight effect.
  它充分说明了焦点效应
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  And then it has a beautiful illustration of psychological testing,
  这段短片还对心理测验给出了个漂亮的例证
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  so I'll give you them quickly one after the other.
  我让大家一个一个看
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  So, Tom Gilovich, a social psychologist,
  因此 汤姆·季洛维奇 一位社会心理学家
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  was interested in the question of the spotlight effect,
  对焦点效应问题很感兴趣
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  which is when we wear a pink shirt to work,shaving cream in our ear or whatever,
  当我们穿粉红衬衫上班 或耳朵上粘了剃须膏 或其他什么
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  do we systematically overestimate how much other people notice?
  我们真会过高地估计别人对此的注意吗