Rashomon effect
English
Etymology
From 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.
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