Feeling watched matters, but actual inspected time must also be maximized

Evidence

You will please to observe, that though perhaps it is the most important point, that the persons to be inspected should always feel themselves as if under inspection, at least as standing a great chance of being so, yet it is not by any means the only one. If it were, the same advantage might be given to buildings of almost any form. What is also of importance is, that for the greatest proportion of time possible, each man should actually be under inspection. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 153

Categorization

• XREF: Bentham explicitly distinguishes subjective feeling-of-being-watched from actual surveillance — a nuance that complicates a clean read of panic self-policing. — connects to: Panoptic power rests on central inspection plus unseen watching — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 152; Actual inspection probability intensifies the subjective feeling of being watched — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 154; Uncertainty about being watched suffices to make surveillance effective — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 303 (+5 more)

Related

• Actual inspection probability intensifies the subjective feeling of being watched (similarity 0.90)
• Uncertainty about being watched suffices to make surveillance effective (similarity 0.84)
• Panoptic power rests on central inspection plus unseen watching (similarity 0.83)
• The panopticon governs through prevention rather than detection (similarity 0.81)
• Effective surveillance is visible yet permanently unverifiable (similarity 0.80)
• Public visitors can supervise the supervisor through gratuitous inspection (similarity 0.79)
• Visibility and invisibility must be balanced for surveillance to function (similarity 0.79)
• One observation action suffices to make prisoners police their own behavior permanently (similarity 0.79)
• Visible surveillance makes subjects police themselves without any force (similarity 0.79)
• The examination is a normalizing gaze that classifies and punishes through visibility (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Uncertainty about being watched suffices to make surveillance effective #expands (0.88) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 303
• Being watched cues reliably boost prosocial behavior and suppress cheating #expands (0.85)
• The mere feeling of being observed shifts behavior from selfish to reciprocal norms #corroborates (0.82)
• Complete surveillance requires those watched to begin monitoring themselves. #expands (0.80)