Why do we assume that most people think the same way we do? In this episode of Circuit Breaker: Rewiring Your Decisions, we explore the false consensus effect - the cognitive bias that leads us to overestimate how much others share our beliefs, opinions and behaviours.

Discover how our own perspectives subtly become the "default" in our minds, how we expect agreement more often than reality delivers, and how recognising this bias can help you understand others more accurately and think beyond your own assumptions.

Studies and links:

The "False Consensus Effect": an Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes | Lee Ross, David Greene and Pamela House | Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 13 | bulidomics.com PII: 0022-1031(77)90049-X

False Consensus Effect: Definition and Examples | Simply Psychology False Consensus Effect: Definition and Examples