The False Consensus Effect in Estimates of Smoking Prevalence

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1973 • 6,028 citations

Journal of personality and social psychology

1988 • 5,074 citations

Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

1983 • 4,358 citations

Attribution: Perceiving the Causes of Behavior

1987 • 3,755 citations

Problem Behavior and Psychosocial Development: A Longitudinal Study of Youth

1977 • 3,233 citations

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

1977 • 3,065 citations

Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgment.

1981 • 2,900 citations

The actor and the observer : Divergent perceptions of the causes of behavior

1972 • 2,529 citations

Problem Behavior and Psychosocial Development: A Longitudinal Study of Youth.

1978 • 1,198 citations

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

1978 • 1,080 citations

Increasing the validity of self-reports of behavior in a smoking in children investigation.

1977 • 311 citations

Social image factors as motivators of smoking initiation in early and middle adolescence.

1982 • 166 citations

Social Image Factors as Motivators of Smoking Initiation in Early and Middle Adolescence

1982 • 151 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

Highlights from Student Drug Use in America, 1975-1981.

1981 • 73 citations

Student drug use in America, 1975-1981

1982 • 44 citations