The illusion of transparency: biased assessments of others' ability to read one's emotional states.

By Thomas Gilovich, K. Savitsky, V. Medvec. 1998

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Negotiations over Accounting Issues: The Congruency of Audit Partner and Chief Financial Officer Recalls (2005, background): “Although the parties believed that their positions, arguments, and strategies were transparent and that they kept the other side informed, it appears as though at least the process of developing each side’s positions and arguments may not have been as transparent to the other as they both thought (G”
Economics, Fairness and Algorithmic Bias (2020, unknown): “Famous social psychology papers about “the illusion of transparency” suggest most people overestimate how well their own behavior is understood by other people (Gilovich et al., 1998).”
Guilty and innocent suspects’ strategies during police interrogations (2007, background): “People have a general tendency to believe that the feelings one have on the inside leave traces on the outside (Savitsky & Gilovich, 2003); this belief is evident in a range of situations such as potential emergencies (Gilovich et al., 1998) and during negotiations (Vorauer & Claude, 1998).”
Toward understanding understanding : The importance of feeling understood in relationships (2017, unknown): “…more than others actually do (Gilovich, Medvec, & Savitsky, 2000), believe that their internal states are more observable than they actually are (Gilovich, Savitsky, & Medvec, 1998), anticipate that their partners' current behaviors will continue into the future (Lemay, Lin, & Muir, 2015), and…”
The relation between language and theory of mind in development and evolution (2002, background): “…behavior with patterns in one’s own behavior (cf. Rizzolatti, Fadiga, Gallese, & Fogassi, 1996), then patterns in one’s own behavior with (a vague awareness of) one’s own mental state, finally leading to a projective inference of one’s own mental state to the other person (Gallese & Goldman, 1998).”
Attention to behavioral events during interaction: two actor-observer gaps and three attempts to close them. (2001, background): “However, actors cannot easily monitor their own facial expressions, gestures, or posture (Bull, 1987; DePaulo, 1992; Gilovich et al., 1998).”
Putting Adjustment Back in the Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristic: Differential Processing of Self-Generated and Experimenter-Provided Anchors (2001, background): “These phenomena include trait inference (Gilbert, in press), interpersonal communication (Keysar & Barr, in press), comparative ability estimates (Kruger, 1999), and various egocentric biases (Gilovich et al., 1998, 2000; Keysar & Bly, 1995; Van Boven, Dunning, & Loewenstein, 2000).”