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The false consensus effect: deconstruction and reconstruction of an anomaly

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education |
2004

Abstract

We present a striking example of the deconstruction and reconstruction of an anomaly. In line with previous experiments we show in a one-shot setting that the allegedly robust false consensus effect disappears if representative information is readily available.

But the effect reappears if a small cognitive effort is required to retrieve the information