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Assumed Similiarity (or Assumed Similiarity Bias) is a social cognitive bias that describes the tendancy for someone to believe that they are more similar in traits and quality to others than is actually true.[1][2] The phenomenon was first explored when researchers in 1933 identified how children who had cheated on an exam believed that others cheated more than was actually true, compared to children who had not cheated on the exam.[3] Lee J. Cronbach further added to understanding of the phenomenon in 1955, identifying how assumed similarity inflates the accuracy by which percievers attribute judgements about others.[1][4] Contemporary research has focussed more on using the term false consensus effect, as named by Lee Ross in 1977.[5]
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- ^ Katz, Daniel; Allport, Floyd Henry; Jenness, Margaret Babock (1931). Students' attitudes, a report of the Syracuse university reaction study. Syracuse, New York: The Craftsman press, inc.
- ^ Cronbach, Lee J. (May 1955). "Processes affecting scores on "understanding of others" and "assumed similarity"". Psychological Bulletin. 52 (3): 177–193 – via Ovid.
- ^ Kenny, David A. (2020-01-23). Interpersonal Perception: The Foundation of Social Relationships (2nd ed.). Guilford Press. pp. 222–225. ISBN 978-1462541515.