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. Thefalse_consensus_effectis 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
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.
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