The false consensus effect is the tendency to overestimate how many others share one’s own view, using personal states as an anchor for judging others. It is the mirror image of pluralistic ignorance, where people underestimate how many privately agree with them.
- FamilyModel
- Category of its source unitEffects, Biases & Phenomena
- DomainVoice, Silence & Power
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Effects, Biases & Phenomena
Identifies a bounded pattern in judgment, behavior or communication and the conditions under which it appears. Naming the pattern makes a recurring difficulty recognizable; it does not make the pattern inevitable or supply a complete explanation.