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.