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Hawthorne Effect - Wikipedia
The act of measurement changes the behavior of the thing being measured.
Youngme Moon • Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
When fed a chunk of information, a computer processes it in the same way on each occasion, whether it’s been at work for five minutes or five hours, whether it is located in a fluorescent lit office or positioned next to a sunny window, whether it’s near other computers or is the only computer in the room. This is how computers operate.
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Social psychologists have known for decades that people are motivated to work harder when others are watching. When they are observed, people run faster, are more creative, and think harder about problems.
Rohit • Our love of authenticity rises as all the world became a stage
People change their behavior when they know they’re being watched. And on social media, somebody can always look at you.
David Perell • The Social Media Trap - David Perell
There's a key point that our actions do fundamentally change in some ways when we think someone's watching us. David Elkind, a child psychologist of high repute (repute as a psychologist I mean, not as a child), coined the term Imaginary Audience in 1967. He coined it to point to a belief that we are under constant observation by peers.