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- noun psychology The effect of the
subjectivity ofperception onrecollection , by whichobservers of anevent are able to produce substantiallydifferent but equallyplausible accounts of it.
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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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