The 'False Consensus Effect'¶
Ross, L., Greene, D., & House, P. (1977). The 'False Consensus Effect': An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 13(3), 279-301.
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Primes¶
- Private-Public Preference Divergence
- It is the decision-channel species, adding action-commitment and post-hoc revelation; the parent is the general distributional gap of which the unwanted-decision case is one specialization. Not the False Consensus Effect. The False Consensus Effect is the egocentric bias of overestimating how widely one's own view is shared — projecting the self onto the group.
This sourceDocuments overestimation of how widely one's own view is shared.
- It is the decision-channel species, adding action-commitment and post-hoc revelation; the parent is the general distributional gap of which the unwanted-decision case is one specialization. Not the False Consensus Effect. The False Consensus Effect is the egocentric bias of overestimating how widely one's own view is shared — projecting the self onto the group.
Domain-specific¶
- False Consensus Effect
- Social psychology — the canonical finding that people asked whether others would take some action predict that refusers and accepters alike feel as they themselves do, each group projecting.
This sourceThe originating study naming and demonstrating the false consensus effect, including that both refusers and accepters project their own choice onto others.
- Social psychology — the canonical finding that people asked whether others would take some action predict that refusers and accepters alike feel as they themselves do, each group projecting.
Mechanisms¶
- Empathy Map with Evidence Marks
- Its recurring distortion is the false-consensus effect: the team fills the think-and-feel cells with what they would feel and marks them as obvious.
This sourceEstablishes the false-consensus effect as an egocentric bias in estimates of how common one's own choices and judgments are.
- Its recurring distortion is the false-consensus effect: the team fills the think-and-feel cells with what they would feel and marks them as obvious.
- Perspective Translation Exercise
- It targets the false-consensus trap — the reflex to assume others share one's own frame — by forcing a concrete rebuild that proves they don't.
This sourceFinds that people tend to overestimate how widely others share their own choices and judgments.
- It targets the false-consensus trap — the reflex to assume others share one's own frame — by forcing a concrete rebuild that proves they don't.
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