Mechanisms Underlying the False Consensus Effect

Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

1983 • 4,358 citations

The “false consensus effect”: An egocentric bias in social perception and attribution processes

1977 • 3,065 citations

Self-serving biases in the attribution of causality: Fact or fiction?

1975 • 2,467 citations

The Psychology of affiliation

1963 • 1,552 citations

Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

1981 • 1,280 citations

Self-serving biases in the attribution process: A reexamination of the fact or fiction question.

1978 • 1,080 citations

Clues to Suicide

1956 • 317 citations

The False Consensus Effect in Estimates of Smoking Prevalence

1983 • 191 citations

Effects of cooperation and competition on responsibility attribution after success and failure

1973 • 186 citations

Facilitation of ego-biased attributions by means of self-serving observer feedback.

1977 • 97 citations

Perceptions of the magnitude and diversity of social support

1979 • 91 citations

Examination of affect and egotism as mediators of bias in causal attributions.

1980 • 78 citations

Causal focus and estimates of consensus: An examination of the false-consensus effect.

1983 • 69 citations

Determinants of consensus estimates: Attribution, salience, and representativeness.

1982 • 45 citations

Effect of targets' physical attractiveness on assumptions of similarity.

1981 • 33 citations

Effect of targets' physical attractiveness on assumptions of similarity.

1981 • 30 citations

Assumed Similarity Between Self and Other: Effect of Expectation of Future Interaction with That Other

1982 • 30 citations