Overestimating the extent to which others notice and evaluate our appearance and performance is called
A) reciprocal determinism.
B) self-serving bias.
C) the spotlight effect.
D) a fixation.

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The phenomenon described is the spotlight effect, where individuals believe that they are "in the spotlight" and overestimate the degree to which others notice and evaluate them. Reciprocal determinism refers to the interaction between personal factors, behaviors, and environmental factors, self-serving bias is the tendency to take credit for success and deny responsibility for failure, and fixation refers to an obsessive preoccupation with a certain object or idea. None of these fully capture the phenomenon described in the question.

Overestimating the Extent to Which Others Notice and Evaluate Our