The “false consensus effect”: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes

By L. Ross, D. Greene, Pamela House. 1977

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Theory of Mind: A Neural Prediction Problem (2013, neutral): “When specific information about a person’s reputation or traits is unavailable, we may predict others’ preferences by assuming that they will share our own preferences (Krueger and Clement, 1994; Ross et al., 1977).”
We think you agree: The detrimental impact of the false consensus effect on behavior (2002, methodology): “Two studies were designed to examine the impact of the false consensus effect on behavior (FCE; Ross, Greene, & House, 1977 ).”
Social Comparisons and Pro-social Behavior: Testing "Conditional Cooperation" in a Field Experiment (2004, background): “From this result, however, causality cannot be established, because behavior can also influence expectations, e.g., through a “false consensus” effect (Lee Ross et al., 1977).”
Pride and Prejudice: The Human Side of Incentive Theory (2008, unknown): “Psychologists initially concluded that people therefore systematically overestimate the degree of similarity – creating a “false–consensus” effect; see Ross, Green and House (1977) .”
Gender-specific Normative Misperceptions of Risky Sexual Behavior and Alcohol-related Risky Sexual Behavior (2007, result): “Normative misperceptions for sexual behavior are consistent with both false consensus effects (Marks and Miller 1987; Ross et al. 1977; Whitley 1998) and pluralistic ignorance (Prentice and Miller 1993).”
Framing responsibility in climate change discourse: Ethnocentric attribution bias, perceived causes, and policy attitudes (2013, background): “This lack of difference may be because those in the control condition already exhibited a strong tendency to attribute an event to human factors, a fundamental attribution error (Ross et al., 1977).”
The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others (2002, unknown): “This line of reasoning helps us to reconcile two seemingly contradictory theoretical assertions entailed in “naive realism.” The first, an assimilation hypothesis, is that ceteris paribus people tend to assume that others share their views ( Ross, Greene, & House, 1977 ).”
The truly false consensus effect: an ineradicable and egocentric bias in social perception. (1994, unknown): “In a simulation of the Ross, Greene, and House (1977) sandwich board study, subjects believed that those participants in the sandwich board study who complied with the experimenter's request estimated the percentage of compliance to be higher than did those participants who declined to comply…”
Appendix for: Belief Elicitation in Experiments: Is There a Hedging Problem? (2010, unknown): “…two options A and B, those who choose A expect a higher rate of choices for A than those who choose B) has been labeled “false consensus effect” (Ross, Greene, and House 1977) in the social psychology sequential prisoner’s dilemma game and how this contributes to the explanation of the…”