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Consensus Effects

Consensus Effects is a psychological phenomenon in trait inference wherein individuals' judgments of a target person’s personality traits converge across multiple perceivers, indicating that certain trait inferences are reliably shared beyond chance, thus distinguishing it from idiosyncratic or purely subjective perception.

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13.4K

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259

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128

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2017–2026

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131

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

Lee Ross, David Greene, Pamela House · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1977 · 3.2K citations

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Ten years of research on the false-consensus effect: An empirical and theoretical review.

Gary Marks, Norman Miller · Psychological Bulletin · 1987 · 1.1K citations

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The truly false consensus effect: An ineradicable and egocentric bias in social perception.

Joachim I. Krueger, Russell W. Clement · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1994 · 465 citations

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The false consensus effect: A meta-analysis of 115 hypothesis tests

Brian Mullen, Jennifer L Atkins, Debbie S Champion et al. · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1985 · 426 citations

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Towards a theory of collective phenomena: Consensus and attitude changes in groups

Serge Galam, Serge Moscovici · European Journal of Social Psychology · 1991 · 399 citations

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Authors

259

  1. DA
    David A. Kenny

    University of Connecticut, United States

    5 publications · 558 citations

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  2. BM
    Brian Mullen

    Syracuse University, United States

    5 publications · 634 citations

    5

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  3. BP
    Bernadette Park

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    4 publications · 97 citations

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  4. MH
    Miles Hewstone

    University of Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 168 citations

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  5. HE
    Hans‐Peter Erb

    Helmut Schmidt University, Germany

    3 publications · 127 citations

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Institutions

128

  1. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. Syracuse University

    Syracuse, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    386 citations

  3. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    445 citations

  4. University of Kansas

    Lawrence, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    155 citations

  5. University of Connecticut

    Storrs, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    517 citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    149 citations

  7. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    9.6K citations

  8. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    1.1K citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    34 publications · 3.2K citations

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  2. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

    PSPB · 18 publications · 897 citations

    15

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  3. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

    10 publications · 4.4K citations

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  4. British Journal of Social Psychology

    6 publications · 266 citations

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  5. The Journal of Social Psychology

    6 publications · 106 citations

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