Thursday, July 15, 2010

Rashomon effect

The Rashomon effect is 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.
It is named for Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, in which a crime is witnessed by four individuals. Each then described the crime with absolute honesty but in four mutually contradictory ways.

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