8-False consensus
By Khaiyam khalid: https://www.Instagram.com/khalidkhaiyam/
Pic says: “We believe more people agree with us than is actually the case.”
“Everyone thinks that.”
Order:
1: What is it?
“Fallacy that people are thinking as we are.”
2: Elaboration
A misconception that the world is as We see it. It’s all about delusion about the nature of others’ behaviour, beliefs and thoughts that they are the same as mine.
An assumption about your thoughts to be common and normal because everyone is like that...
3: Example
When someone gave you two options to pick up one after you choose one if you will be asked that “what’s your opinion about people’s choice?”
you will say (if you accurately say following the hidden subconscious thoughts) they will, choose which I did.
Or if you are asked why you chose that?
In both cases, you will say because it’s normal and common with everyone.
You think that your thoughts are normal and people agree with them.
4: Explanation
“Ross et al. (1977) coined the term the false consensus effect (FCE) to describe the tendency to “see one’s own behavioural choices and judgments as relatively common and appropriate to existing circumstances while viewing alternative responses as uncommon, deviant, or inappropriate”
(If you keep thinking that this is normal then the conclusion can be harmful
You can easily observe it, just look around you, see the people and their tones, behaviours, words... Nearly all of them are following acts because they subconsciously think it’s normal. After all, if someone acts abnormally you can see the shininess (the nature of humans) in their body and language.)
Normal is right
When you thought that my actions and thoughts are normal then you subconsciously believed that you are right.
And when you believed I’m right then anything against that rightness will be completely wrong (no matter how right and the fact they are) and your belief will urge you to act not good...
When it becomes your habit, and your thoughts are different from others then you will be simultaneously out of the group of people, because everything against your fallacy is wrong.
And eventually, it can pull the wars and fights with one another as we see in our nowadays.
And this is how it affects.
Let’s see some boring points essential to depths:
Causes:
From the “psychology web..”
MotivationalProcesses: Traditionally, researchers who have described phenomena like the false consensus effect or “egocentric attribution biases’’ have emphasized the motivation and function for the individual (Ross et al., 1977).
Selective Exposure and Cognitive Availability: Another explanation that Ross et al. (1977) presents for the false consensus effect is selective exposure and availability factors.
Ambiguity Resolution Factors:
Thirdly, Ross et al. (1977) proposes that the false consensus effect can also arise from someone’s response to ambiguity as to the forces causing a situation and the meaning and implications or various responses.
Salience and Focus of Attention:
Following Ross et al.’s study (1977), researchers have proposed alternative mechanisms for the false consensus effect. One such mechanism is salience and focus of attention, alternatively called the selective information treatment hypothesis (Verlhiac, 2000).
Logical Informational Processing:
The fourth and last putative theoretical mechanism for the false-consensus effect is logical information processing (Marks and Miller, 1987)
Information’s role
I also saw an article about this bias discussing about the causes but with some new experiences and experiments:
“Abstract:
We present an experiment on the false consensus effect. Unlike previous experiments, we provide monetary incentives for revealing the actual estimation of others’ behaviour. In each session and round, sixteen subjects make a choice between two options simultaneously. Then they estimate the choices of a randomly selected subgroup. For half of the rounds we provide information about other subjects’ choices. There we find no false consensus effect. At an aggregate level, subjects significantly underweight rather than overweight their choices. When we do not provide information, the presence of a false consensus effect cannot be detected.”
5: Effects:
In:
Social
Belief
Politics
6: How to?
Easy!
Aren’t you different from another? In thinking, behaving, expressing, acting... People are also different.
What you think can be confined with yourself. And what others think is with others.
Some may think that the Nepal is not a good country. But you know how beautiful and loving country Nepal is, as other people know.
Just think people are different from one another, so your thoughts perhaps are different...
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