What Is the False Consensus Effect

question 8

Multiple Choice

What is the false consensus effect?

• A) people's tendency to underestimate the degree to which their own behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and so on are shared by other people
• B) people's tendency to infer a causal relationship between two events even though they don't know the direction of causality
• C) people's tendency to make a judgment based on what they can remember, rather than complete data
• D) people's tendency to overestimate the degree to which their own behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and so on are shared by other people