Rashomon-effect Definition

noun

(psychology) The effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.

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rashomon-effect
Plural:
Rashomon effects

Origin of Rashomon-effect

  • After Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.

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