We think you agree: The detrimental impact of the false consensus effect on behavior

2002/12/01 by Kathleen P. Bauman, Glenn Geher · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Argument (complex analysis) #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Medicine #Psychological intervention #Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Viewpoints

paper · doi:10.1007/s12144-002-1020-0

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• Opinions and Social Pressure
• Ten years of research on the false-consensus effect: An empirical and theoretical review.
• Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability
• The “false consensus effect”: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes
• Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences
• A Theory of Social Comparison Processes

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• False consensus effect [wikipedia]