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

Ross, Lee; Greene, David; House, Pamela

doi:10.1016/0022-1031(77)90049-x

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“…Given people's tendency to assume that most people share their attitudes (Ross et al, 1977), we suspect that people also generally expect to I-share with others. If so, under everyday conditions, people ought to show more of a reaction to those who do not I-share with them (because they violate people's expectancies) than to people who do I-share with them.…”

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Seeing I to I: A Pathway to Interpersonal Connectedness.

Pinel¹,

Long²,

Landau³

et al. 2006

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The authors introduce the construct of I-sharing-the belief that one shares an identical subjective experience with another person-and the role it plays in liking. In Studies 1-3, participants indicated their liking for an objectively similar and an objectively dissimilar person, one of whom I-shared with them and the other of whom did not. Participants preferred the objectively similar person but only when that person I-shared with them. Studies 4 and 5 highlight the role that feelings of existential isolation and the need for closeness play in people's attraction to I-sharers. In Study 4, people with high needs for interpersonal closeness responded to I-sharers and non-I-sharers with great intensity. In Study 5, priming participants with feelings of existential isolation increased their liking for Isharers over objectively similar others. The results highlight the importance of shared subjective experience and have implications for interpersonal and intergroup processes.

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“…For example, people regularly overestimate the number of people who share their attitudes (Ross, Greene, & House, 1977); presumably this "false consensus effect" would generalize to estimates of shared subjective experience as well. The tendency to assume similarity of the subjective kind also appears to emerge in our close relationships.…”

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Seeing I to I: A Pathway to Interpersonal Connectedness.

Pinel¹,

Long²,

Landau³

et al. 2006

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…These theories suggest that people use their own mental states to infer others' beliefs and behaviors (e.g., Hoch, 1987;Krueger, 1998;Marks & Miller, 1987;Nickerson, 1999;Ross, Greene, & House, 1977). Recently, several researchers have argued that this is true mostly for similar and close others (e.g., Ames 2004aAmes , 2004bMitchell, Banaji, & Macrae, 2005;Schul & Vinokur, 2000).…”

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“…Moreover, projection is assumed to occur when perceivers are asked to predict other people's decisions or estimate others' attributes. Because they have no access to the psychological experiences of others, perceivers can only rely on self-knowledge and project on the basis of this knowledge (e.g., Hoch, 1987;Krueger, 1998;Nickerson, 1999;Ross, Greene, & House, 1977). However, in Experiment 4 participants had to evaluate a target person's performance rather than make predictions regarding an uncertain target's attribute or decision.…”

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Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension: Implications for perception of others’ actions

Liviatan

Trope

Liberman

2008

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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Building on the assumption that interpersonal similarity is a form of social distance, the current research examines the manner in which similarity influences the representation and judgment of others' actions. On the basis of a construal level approach, we hypothesized that greater levels of similarity would increase the relative weight of subordinate and secondary features of information in judgments of others' actions. The results of four experiments showed that compared to corresponding judgments of a dissimilar target, participants exposed to a similar target person identified that person's actions in relatively more subordinate means-related rather than superordinate ends-related terms (Experiment 1), perceived his or her actions to be determined more by feasibility and less by desirability concerns (Experiment 3), and gave more weight to secondary aspects in judgments of the target's decisions (Experiment 2) and performance (Experiment 4). Implications for the study of interpersonal similarity, as well as social distance in general, are discussed. Keywords interpersonal similarity; social distance; construal level theory; social judgment; mental representations Imagine a close friend giving a job talk. Now imagine a stranger giving the same job talk. What type of representation would you construct for this action? Would you represent it in terms of an abstract superordinate goal (for instance, communicating one's research ideas) or rather bring to mind the subordinate, concrete means by which to achieve the goal (such as presenting power point slides)? And would your representation include primary and central aspects related to this action (for instance, the research question) or more secondary information (such as the slides' background design)?

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“…Based on the view that people share knowledge of life scripts (Clarke, 1995), and on research showing that people use their own experiences to make inferences about the likely behaviour of others (Karniol, 2003;Ross, Greene & House, 1977), similar patterns are expected to be attributed to the anticipated regrets of others. Also, based on the findings of the studies comparing past and future thought, it is expected that anticipated regrets will be disproportionately general in nature.…”

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Regret as autobiographical memory

Davison

Feeney

2008

Cognitive Psychology

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

Cited by 2,705 publications

References 22 publications

Seeing I to I: A Pathway to Interpersonal Connectedness.

Seeing I to I: A Pathway to Interpersonal Connectedness.

Interpersonal similarity as a social distance dimension: Implications for perception of others’ actions

Regret as autobiographical memory

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