False consensus effect
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In psychology, the false consensus effect, also known as consensus bias, is a pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to assume that their personal qualities, characteristics, beliefs, and actions are relatively widespread through the general population.
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See also
- Abilene paradox
- Attribution bias
- Confirmation bias
- The Engineering of Consent
- False-uniqueness effect
- Fundamental attribution error
- Groupthink
- Illusory superiority
- List of cognitive biases
- Manufacturing Consent
- Omission bias
- Overconfidence effect
- Pseudoconsensus
- Psychological projection
- Pluralistic ignorance
- Social comparison bias
- Social projection
- Value (ethics)
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