{"id":367,"date":"2023-10-17T01:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/?p=367"},"modified":"2023-10-17T01:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T01:25:35","slug":"false-consensus-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/false-consensus-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"False Consensus Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>By Brad Bell<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The false consensus effect is one concept in psychology. &nbsp;&nbsp;What is the false consensus effect? &nbsp;&nbsp;Below is one definition of the false consensus effect:<br><br><strong>False Consensus Effect Definition:<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em>The false consensus effect occurs when one overestimates the commonness of one&#8217;s attitudes.<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><strong>False Consensus Effect Examples:<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>There may be a number of good examples of the false consensus effect. &nbsp;Below are two false consensus examples:<br><br>1. &nbsp;After seeing a film a person believes that the film is excellent. &nbsp;The person overestimates the percentage of people who thought that the film was excellent.<br><br>2. &nbsp;&nbsp;A person believes that a cat is a better pet than a dog. &nbsp;The person overestimates the percentage of people who agree with this view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Brad Bell The false consensus effect is one concept in psychology. &nbsp;&nbsp;What is the false consensus effect? &nbsp;&nbsp;Below is one definition of the false consensus effect: False Consensus Effect Definition:The false consensus effect occurs when one overestimates the commonness of one&#8217;s attitudes.False Consensus Effect Examples:There may be a number of good examples of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/17\/false-consensus-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;False Consensus Effect&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologyandsociety.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}