Professor Lee performed an experiment in which participants put on a Glen Campbell T-shirt before entering a room with other students.The participants' tendency to overestimate the extent to which the other students would notice their unusual T-shirt best illustrates

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The experiment described in the question is a classic example of the spotlight effect, which refers to people's tendency to overestimate how much others are paying attention to and evaluating them. The participants in the study likely believed that their T-shirt was more noticeable and attention-grabbing than it actually was, due to their own self-consciousness and belief that they were being "watched" by others. Thus, the best answer is D, the spotlight effect.

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