English Explanatory Dictionary

Rashomon effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

Rashomon effect Rashomon effects

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.

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