All of us do feel different emotions in our day-to-day lives and each of them has a certain effect on our behavior. Some of these habits are typical of our beliefs. The illusion of transparency is one of them. In this blog, we would discuss the illusion of transparency in detail and would learn about how it affects human emotions. So keep reading and learning about this rare phenomenon.
What is the illusion of transparency?
The illusion of transparency is known as a perceptive preference of a person’s emotions. It causes an individual to misjudge the point to which their emotions and thoughts seem to others. For instance, this illusion process can make a person feel nervous about the sayings of people to overjudge the level to which their anxiety is observed by the spectators. Because the illusion of transparency has a deep effect on a person in different situations, a person needs to learn the process and way of handling it.
The reason behind experiencing the illusion of transparency.
After we have gone through what the process is, it is required to know the exact reason for the occurrence of the illusion of transparency in a person. People do feel different forms of emotions under different situations. In this chain, a person also tends to have natural egocentric favoritism, and based on this they tend to experience the illusion of transparency. This egocentric bias makes them depend majorly on their thoughts and notions while trying to acknowledge the ideas of another person. A person may eventually feel the illusion if he/she spends most of the time acknowledging their actions and ideas from their point of view.
However, it becomes hard for the person to come out of the perspective he had for himself eventually falling into the trap of illusion. The fact behind it is that a person can never look to his own and give an unbiased judgment on behalf of others. Rather than thinking on own self, a person may ask to brief him down. This may help the person avoid the useless thoughts and ideas he is making up in his mind for the spectators.
In a similar sense, a person tends to naturally assume that another person can brief him out both externally and internally. It is with this state of mind, that we give more preference to others’ way of looking toward us.
Examples briefing the illusion.
The illusion of transparency can shake people on an internal note during their presence in a public place. It can cause a feeling of anxiety and nervousness at a higher level than it is happening. Some of the example situations where a person can get affected by the illusion of transparency in daily life are as follows:
- A person who speaks lies tends to overjudge how other people can point out their lies.
- A sad person feels that his sadness is more severe than others present in his surroundings.
