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The false-uniqueness effect is an attributional type of cognitive bias in social psychology that describes how people tend to view their qualities, traits, and personal attributes as unique when in reality they are not. This bias is often measured by looking at the difference between estimates that people make about how many of their peers ...
False uniqueness bias, the tendency of people to see their projects and themselves as more singular than they actually are. [ 38 ] Forer effect or Barnum effect , the tendency for individuals to give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general ...
False fame effect; False-consensus effect; False-uniqueness effect; Fan effect; Florence Nightingale effect; Flynn effect; Focusing effect; Framing effect; Generation effect; Golem effect; Google effect; Halo effect; Hawthorne effect; Hedonic treadmill; Hostile media effect; Hot-cold empathy gap; Hypersonic effect; Imposter syndrome; Irrelevant ...
The uniqueness thesis is “the idea that a body of evidence justifies at most one proposition out of a competing set of propositions (e.g., one theory out of a bunch of exclusive alternatives) and that it justifies at most one attitude toward any particular proposition.” [1] The types of attitudes towards a proposition, are: believing, disbelieving, and suspending judgment.
Researchers have called this misperception a false social reality, a form of pluralistic ignorance. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In social psychology , pluralistic ignorance (also known as a collective illusion) [ 3 ] is a phenomenon in which people mistakenly believe that others predominantly hold an opinion different from their own. [ 4 ]
This list includes well known paradoxes, grouped thematically. The grouping is approximate, as paradoxes may fit into more than one category. This list collects only scenarios that have been called a paradox by at least one source and have their own article in this encyclopedia.
A cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input.
The results showed that the false-consensus effect was extremely prevalent in all groups, but was the most prevalent in the oldest age group (the participants who were labeled as "old-age home residents"). They showed the false-consensus effect in all 12 areas that they were questioned about.