The “false consensus effect”: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes
Volume: 13, Issue: 3, Pages: 279 - 301
Published: May 1, 1977
Abstract
null null Evidence from four studies demonstrates that social observers tend to perceive a “false consensus” with respect to the relative commonness of their own responses. A related bias was shown to exist in the observers' social inferences. Thus, raters estimated particular responses to be relatively common and relatively unrevealing concerning the actors' distinguishing personal dispositions when the responses in question were similar to the...
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Title
The “false consensus effect”: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes
DOI
Published Date
May 1, 1977
Journal
Volume
13
Issue
3
Pages
279 - 301
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