TIL: Rashomon effect

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First suggested by Heider (1988), the term Rashomon effect is derived from the title of a 1951 film by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa in which four characters who witnessed a crime later describe the event in different and contradictory ways. Unlike more traditional detective films, in which a single unified truth ultimately emerges, the complex message of Rashomon emerges when viewers are left to decide for themselves which, if any, of the four characters is telling the truth. Alternately, viewers may choose to construct their own truth by synthesizing the divergent accounts (Kurosawa 1969).

Glenn W. Muschert. Research in School Shootings, 2007. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2007.00008.x/full

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