TY - JOUR
T1 - Is our absence as conspicuous as we think? Overestimating the salience and impact of one's absence from a group
AU - Savitsky, Kenneth
AU - Gilovich, Thomas
AU - Berger, Gail
AU - Medvec, Victoria Husted
N1 - Funding Information:
Portions of this research were presented at the Social Psychologists of Chicago conference, DePaul University, March, 2001. This research was supported by Research Grants MH45531 from the National Institute of Mental Health and SBR9319558 and SBR9809262 from the National Science Foundation, and by a grant from the Kellogg Teams and Groups Research Center. We thank Justin Kruger for his helpful comments on this manuscript. We also thank Matthew Harris, Sara Lederman, Mark Little, Tyler Story, HyunSoo Suh, Allison Walwyn, and Judith White for helping us to collect these data.
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PY - 2003/7
Y1 - 2003/7
N2 - This research provides evidence that people overestimate the salience to others of their own absence from a group. Although individuals regard the removal of someone else from a group to be less salient than the addition of that person, they regard their own removal as every bit as salient as their addition (Study 1). Those absent from a group also expect their absence to be salient in the eyes of others, overestimating the extent to which their absence will be noticed by others (Study 2), and rating their absence as having had a larger impact on the group's subsequent functioning than others do (Study 3). Discussion focuses on individuals' assessments of their absence as an example of a broader egocentrism in social judgment.
AB - This research provides evidence that people overestimate the salience to others of their own absence from a group. Although individuals regard the removal of someone else from a group to be less salient than the addition of that person, they regard their own removal as every bit as salient as their addition (Study 1). Those absent from a group also expect their absence to be salient in the eyes of others, overestimating the extent to which their absence will be noticed by others (Study 2), and rating their absence as having had a larger impact on the group's subsequent functioning than others do (Study 3). Discussion focuses on individuals' assessments of their absence as an example of a broader egocentrism in social judgment.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0022-1031(02)00548-6
DO - 10.1016/S0022-1031(02)00548-6
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037707118
SN - 0022-1031
VL - 39
SP - 386
EP - 392
JO - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
IS - 4
ER -