Rashomon effect
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese 羅生門 (rashōmon), after Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon (1950), in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.
Noun
Rashomon effect (plural Rashomon effects)
- (psychology) 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.
- 1993, Marcos Leiderman, Technology in People Services: Research, Theory, and Applications:
- And, in accordance with the "Rashomon effect," depending on who is doing the telling, the reported effect of computerization in the same agency may differ widely.
- 2017 July 19, Lisa Provence, “Rashomon effect: Police chief defends tear gas; activists allege police brutality[1]”, in c-ville.com, retrieved 17 February 2018: