rashomon effect

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Definition of rashomon effect in English English dictionary

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

Hyphenation

rashomon ef·fect

Etymology

() After Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.