Using the Results from the General Social Survey, Describe Some

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Essay

Using the results from the General Social Survey, describe some of the factors that seem to influence people's attitudes towards cohabitation.

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Definitions:

First Instinct Fallacy

The mistaken belief that an individual's initial answer to a question is more likely to be correct than any answer they might change it to upon further consideration.

False Consensus Effect

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share one's beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors.

False Consensus Effect

A cognitive bias whereby people overestimate the degree to which their beliefs, opinions, preferences, values, and habits are normal and typical of those of others.

False Uniqueness Effect

The tendency of people to underestimate the commonality of their abilities and desirable or successful behaviors.