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	Past and Present Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		They found that the false consensus effect is a consistent phenomenon that is not affected by the "reference population" (e.g., college students versus the general population) or differences among choices/options provided to the subjects (e.g., refusing/agreeing to sign a release versus refusing/agreeing to wear a sandwich board).
		However, the false consensus effect was affected by the amount of items subjects responded to on a questionnaire (with a greater number of items answered resulting in less false consensus), and the sequence of questions (with greater false consensus when estimates of similarity occurred prior to the subject making a behavioral choice).
		This explanation of the false consensus effect is otherwise known as perceptual distortion.
	webusers.xula.edu /lschulte/Social_Psychology/PastandPresent.html (15950 words)

	SSRN-The False Consensus Effect: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of an Anomaly by Dirk Engelmann, Martin Strobel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		SSRN-The False Consensus Effect: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of an Anomaly by Dirk Engelmann, Martin Strobel
		We conclude that the relevance of the false consensus effect depends on the difficulty of the information retrieval and that the underlying mechanism is an information processing defficiency rather than egocentricity.
		Engelmann, Dirk and Strobel, Martin, "The False Consensus Effect: Deconstruction and Reconstruction of an Anomaly" (August 2004).
	papers.ssrn.com /soL3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=841885 (293 words)

	False Consensus Effect
		We will use false consensus more when we attribute our own behavior to external factors as these are the same factors which presumed to affect others.
		However, the cloud-9 effect eventually wears off as the loving couple eventually discover that they are not, after all, that similar (and in fact often are amazingly incompatible!).
		Other people are very often taken in by such false empathy as they see it as normal that you are like them.
	changingminds.org /explanations/theories/false_consensus.htm (292 words)

	Democracy Project: Democracy Project
		That effect occurs when people think that the collective opinion of their own group matches that of the larger population.
		If the members of a group reach a consensus and rarely encounter those who dispute it, they tend to believe that everybody thinks the same way.
		Although a liberal consensus reigns within, academics have an acute sense of how much their views clash with the majority of Americans.
	www.democracy-project.com /archives/000748.html (772 words)

	The "False Consensus Effect": An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The "False Consensus Effect": An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes.
		EJ163647 - The "False Consensus Effect": An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes.
		Evidence from four studies demonstrates that social observers tend to perceive a "false consensus" with respect to the relative commonness of their own responses.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b8009bbb8.html (92 words)

	False Consensus Effect \| Free Term Papers, Essays, Book Reports
		False Consensus Effect: A Focused Review of Research Categorization and social projection are important ways that people can more successfully navigate their social environment.
		For this reason, false consensus is an interesting offshoot of this important idea.
		The false consensus effect refers to the fact that people have a tendency to over-estimate the proportion of th...
	www.oppapers.com /read.php?id=46457 (241 words)

	Is there a term for overestimating the importance of something you happen to be good at? \| Ask MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The false consensus effect has to do with inaccurately estimating the prevalence of beliefs or attributes among other people, whereas jjg's question was more about inaccurately estimating the importance of certain traits (abilities).
		There's also been posited a "false uniqueness effect," which states that for certain traits/abilities, you will actually underestimate their prevalence in others if you yourself possess them.
		You ask us both, "what percentage of people are good at baserunning?" The false consensus effect predicts that his answer will be higher than mine; the false uniqueness effect predicts that his answer will be lower.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/30232 (1142 words)

	Form Feedback Inbox for /~dmyers/testfor/formtestsp1.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Based on a study conducted about self-esteem, true or false: if you have low self-esteem and therefore a poor self-image of yourself, you are more likely to have friends that think very highly of you.
		The primacy effect refers to the importance of and reliance upon:____________.
		the situated self This negative effect imposed by unfair categorization has proven to cause people to exhibit poorer performance in their work because they know that that is all that is expected of them: a.
	www.nd.edu /cgi-bin/inbox.cgi/~dmyers/testfor/formtestsp1.html (15277 words)

	Social Beliefs and Judgements
		The false consensus effect suggests that people overestimate the proportion of people who agree with them on a given topic.
		The priming effect is an external procedure that increases the probability that a particular category of information will be available in memory.
		The face-in-the-crowd effect refers to the ability to pick out negative expressions from a crowd and is a feature of automatic vigilance.
	www.dbu.edu /jeanhumphreys/SocialPsych/3socialbeliefs.htm (961 words)

	False Consensus Effect (Theory-of-the-Week - December 30, 2001)
		False Consensus Effect (Theory-of-the-Week - December 30, 2001)
		Researchers attribute this to the fact that, in the absence of information about how others are doing, highly competent subjects assume that others are performing as well as they are.
		Ross, L., Greene, D. & House, P. The false consensus effect: An egocentric bias in social perception and attributional processes.
	jamesthornton.com /theory/theory?theory_id=25 (179 words)

	Effects of Forced Exposure to a Hypothetical Population on False Consensus -- Kulig 26 (5): 629 -- Personality and ...
		Effects of Forced Exposure to a Hypothetical Population on False Consensus -- Kulig 26 (5): 629 -- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
		Articles by Kulig, J. Effects of Forced Exposure to a Hypothetical Population on False Consensus
		argues against their equivalence as false consensus measures.
	psp.sagepub.com /cgi/content/abstract/26/5/629 (151 words)

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		Summarize the results, conclusions, and implications of Sherif’s study of the autokinetic effect and Asch’s line-length judgment task.
		Define “primacy effect” and “self-fulfilling prophecy” and explain how these interact with the fundamental attribution error to influence the impressions we form of other people (and that other people form of us).
		Define the “false consensus” and “false uniqueness” effects and identify real-life examples of these effects.
	www.gpc.edu /~bbrown/psyc1101/unit8social.doc (1032 words)

	ISRA - The Attractions of Violence
		They also completed a battery of measures that included their attitude toward law and order, fight history, the false consensus effect, impulsivity, sensation seeking, anger, physical aggression and identification with their favorite team.
		Law and order, anger and the false consensus effect were positively related to peacemaking whereas sensation seeking was negatively related.
		Researchers have concerned themselves with the effects of violence in the media, but have neglected the question of why violent entertainment attracts an audience in the first place.
	www.israsociety.com /xiii/abst3.html (408 words)

	False consensus of wood smoke, wood burnng, wood stove sales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The association among adolescents' tobacco use, their beliefs and attitudes, and friends' and parents' opinions of smoking.
		OBJECTIVE: To examine adolescents' attitudes toward smoking, the presence of a false consensus effect, and the influence of peer and parental attitudes about smoking choices on being a susceptible, never smoker; an experimenter; and a current smoker.
		METHODS: Data from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's 1996 National Study of Tobacco Price Sensitivity, Behavior, and Attitudes Among Teenagers and Young Adults (RWJF survey) were used to produce national estimates of the tobacco use behaviors and attitudes of adolescents enrolled in high school.
	burningissues.org /~bi/falseconcensus.html (281 words)

	News - Annenberg School For Communication at the University of Pennsylvania
		It also tests whether exposure to ideologically dissimilar media and contacts with extensive and heterogeneous offline social networks moderate the false consensus effect.
		Contrary to extant research and theory, the size of offline groups and cross-cutting information provided by their members did not reduce the false consensus effect.
		Exposure to ideologically dissimilar news media, on the other hand, had both independent and interactive effects, resulting in more accurate estimates of public opinion distribution.
	www.asc.upenn.edu /news/newsDetail.asp?id=277 (231 words)

	SSRN-Projection of Own on Others' Job Characteristics: Evidence for the False Consensus Effect in Job Characteristics ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The present study is an examination of the influence of rater characteristics as a source of bias in job characteristics information, as gleaned from the Job Diagnostic Survey (JDS).
		Non-incumbents' personality dimensions, own job characteristics, job satisfaction level, and incumbent satisfaction level were hypothesized as predictors of ratings of job characteristics of incumbents.
		Results indicate that two characteristics, job autonomy and dealing with others, were influenced by non-incumbents standing on these characteristics, and demonstrated evidence of the false consensus effect.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=679128 (306 words)

	Peter Gordon's Blog
		He notes that, "[s]ocial scientists call it the false consensus effect: a group's conviction that its opinions are the norm.
		Liberals on campus have become so used to hearing their opinions reinforced that they have a hard time imagining there are intelligent people with different views, either on campus or in politics."
		This is the opportunity that we deny students when professors parrot party lines -- and when they succumb to the false consensus effect.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~pgordon/blog/2005/10/false-consensus.html (195 words)

	Schedule and Readings
		The "false-consensus effect:" An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes.
		Dawes, R. The potential nonfalsity of the false consensus effect.
		Davis, M. H., Conklin, L., Smith, A., and Luce, C. Effect of perspective taking on the cognitive representation of persons: A merging of self and other.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~bfmalle/410/schedule.html (953 words)

	Think Progress » NPR’s Liasson Falsely Claims “It’s Democrats, Not Just Republicans Taking Money From ...
		Mialy that is because the right has demonized liberlasim while the left keeps acting like their are “good” conservatives instead of explaining to the nation that the conservative movement is in reality an unwitting treasonous movement, which is and will continue to destroy the nation.
		If I made a post under one false name and then pretended to respond to that post under another false name, THAT would be dishonest.
		YEs, I fear that the WH has had a very negative effect on the freedom of the reporting on NPR by appointing political shills, and getting rid of head shill did not clean house sufficiently.
	thinkprogress.org /2006/05/07/liasson-abramoff-false (14399 words)

	Construing the social world... and attribution
		False consensus effect: People tend to rate their own particular choice as more common.
		Egocentric attribution: tendency to attribute one’s own successes to internal traits and failures to external traits.
		Well, sure I had sex with her, but it was consensual
	www-personal.ksu.edu /~lswilli/siconstrual.html (438 words)

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