PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -False consensus effect is the overestimation of the level at which other people share our beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors. False consensus is more likely when we attribute the causes of our beliefs and behaviors to external factors, since these factors are also presumed to affect others.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ross et al. (1977) coined the term the false consensus effect (FCE) to describe the tendency to “see one’s own behavioral choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances while viewing alternative responses as uncommon, deviant, or inappropriate” (p. 280).

Detailed explanation-3: -One example of the false-consensus effect is someone believing that the political candidate that they favor has more support in the population than other candidates, even when that isn’t the case.

Detailed explanation-4: -In psychology, the false consensus effect, also known as consensus bias, is a pervasive cognitive bias that causes people to “see their own behavioral choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances”.