Kenneth Savitsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 4230834 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth Savitsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth |
| FAMILY NAME | Savitsky |
| SIGNATURE | SAVITSKY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Williams College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Haters are all the same
The Minority Spotlight Effect
Across three studies, members of underrepresented groups felt that they were the center of others’ attention when topics related to their group were discussed, and this experience was accompanied by negative emotions. Black participants reported that they would feel most “in the spotlight” when they were the only Black individual in a class in which the professor drew attention to their group with a provocative comment (Study 1). Black and Latino…
The strategic pursuit of moral credentials
The feature-positive effect in allocations of responsibility for collaborative tasks
The closeness-communication bias
The unpacking effect in allocations of responsibility for group tasks
Is our absence as conspicuous as we think? Overestimating the salience and impact of one’s absence from a group
The illusion of transparency and the alleviation of speech anxiety
Empathy neglect
When people commit an embarrassing blunder, they typically overestimate how harshly they will be judged by others. This tendency can seem to fly in the face of research on the correspondence bias, which has established that observers are, in fact, quite likely to draw harsh dispositional inferences about others. These seemingly inconsistent literatures are reconciled by showing that actors typically neglect to consider the extent to which observe…
Do others judge us as harshly as we think? Overestimating the impact of our failures, shortcomings, and mishaps
The spotlight effect in social judgment
This research provides evidence that people overestimate the extent to which their actions and appearance are noted by others, a phenomenon dubbed the spotlight effect. In Studies 1 and 2, participants who were asked to don a T-shirt depicting either a flattering or potentially embarrassing image overestimated the number of observers who would be able to recall what was pictured on the shirt. In Study 3, participants in a group discussion overest…
The illusion of transparency
When doing better means feeling worse
Counterfactual thoughts of what might have been have been shown to influence emotional responses to outcomes. The present investigation extends this research by proposing a model of how categorical cutoff points, or arbitrary values that impose qualitative boundaries on quantitative outcomes, induce counterfactual thoughts and influence individuals' satisfaction. In particular, just making a cutoff for a category is hypothesized to elicit downwar…
The spotlight effect in social judgment
This research provides evidence that people overestimate the extent to which their actions and appearance are noted by others, a phenomenon dubbed the spotlight effect. In Studies 1 and 2, participants who were asked to don a T-shirt depicting either a flattering or potentially embarrassing image overestimated the number of observers who would be able to recall what was pictured on the shirt. In Study 3, participants in a group discussion overest…
The illusion of transparency
The strategic pursuit of moral credentials
Do others judge us as harshly as we think? Overestimating the impact of our failures, shortcomings, and mishaps
The closeness-communication bias
The illusion of transparency and the alleviation of speech anxiety
When doing better means feeling worse
Counterfactual thoughts of what might have been have been shown to influence emotional responses to outcomes. The present investigation extends this research by proposing a model of how categorical cutoff points, or arbitrary values that impose qualitative boundaries on quantitative outcomes, induce counterfactual thoughts and influence individuals' satisfaction. In particular, just making a cutoff for a category is hypothesized to elicit downwar…
The unpacking effect in allocations of responsibility for group tasks
Empathy neglect
When people commit an embarrassing blunder, they typically overestimate how harshly they will be judged by others. This tendency can seem to fly in the face of research on the correspondence bias, which has established that observers are, in fact, quite likely to draw harsh dispositional inferences about others. These seemingly inconsistent literatures are reconciled by showing that actors typically neglect to consider the extent to which observe…
Is our absence as conspicuous as we think? Overestimating the salience and impact of one’s absence from a group
When doing better means feeling worse
Counterfactual thoughts of what might have been have been shown to influence emotional responses to outcomes. The present investigation extends this research by proposing a model of how categorical cutoff points, or arbitrary values that impose qualitative boundaries on quantitative outcomes, induce counterfactual thoughts and influence individuals' satisfaction. In particular, just making a cutoff for a category is hypothesized to elicit downwar…
The illusion of transparency
The spotlight effect in social judgment
This research provides evidence that people overestimate the extent to which their actions and appearance are noted by others, a phenomenon dubbed the spotlight effect. In Studies 1 and 2, participants who were asked to don a T-shirt depicting either a flattering or potentially embarrassing image overestimated the number of observers who would be able to recall what was pictured on the shirt. In Study 3, participants in a group discussion overest…
Do others judge us as harshly as we think? Overestimating the impact of our failures, shortcomings, and mishaps
Empathy neglect
When people commit an embarrassing blunder, they typically overestimate how harshly they will be judged by others. This tendency can seem to fly in the face of research on the correspondence bias, which has established that observers are, in fact, quite likely to draw harsh dispositional inferences about others. These seemingly inconsistent literatures are reconciled by showing that actors typically neglect to consider the extent to which observe…
Is our absence as conspicuous as we think? Overestimating the salience and impact of one’s absence from a group
The illusion of transparency and the alleviation of speech anxiety
The unpacking effect in allocations of responsibility for group tasks
The closeness-communication bias
The feature-positive effect in allocations of responsibility for collaborative tasks
The strategic pursuit of moral credentials
The Minority Spotlight Effect
Across three studies, members of underrepresented groups felt that they were the center of others’ attention when topics related to their group were discussed, and this experience was accompanied by negative emotions. Black participants reported that they would feel most “in the spotlight” when they were the only Black individual in a class in which the professor drew attention to their group with a provocative comment (Study 1). Black and Latino…
Haters are all the same
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (5 works) · Communication in Education and Healthcare (3 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works) · Group (periodic table (3 works)