A Replication of Stern, West, and Schmitt (2014) Indicates Less False 					Consensus Among Liberals Than Conservatives, But No False 					Uniqueness

Blanchar, John C.; Alonzo, Michael; Ayoh, Christine; Blain, Kali; Espinoza, Leslie; Estrada, Marcos Moradas; Gillen, Jared; Marquez, Atziri; Miao, Joanne; Overbeck, Victoria; Slosky, Camryn; Srivatsan, Shruthi; Talley, Elise; Tucker, Justin M.

doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000448

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“…Political Preference. Political preference is particularly notable as a predictor in this study due to its demonstrated associations both with false consensus (Blanchar et al, 2021) and willingness to engage in health and safety measures (Urminsky & Bergman, 2021;Collins et al, 2021). Furthermore, older (Biernat et al, 1997) and more recent (Rabinowitz et al, 2016;Stern et al, 2014) studies have connected political identity (liberal vs. conservative) to both false consensus and false uniqueness, with liberals displaying more false uniqueness and conservatives displaying more false consensus.…”

Section: Individual Difference Measuresmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Some of these differences are consistent with factors that impact the false consensus effect. For instance, false consensus manifests more when comparing oneself to the same gender (Krueger & Zeiger, 1993) and the same overall political orientation (Stern et al, 2014;Blanchar et al, 2021). Thus, we also use this study to investigate a third question:…”

Section: Perceptions Of Self-other Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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I'm wearing a mask, but are they?: Perceptions of Self-Other Differences in COVID-19 Health Behaviors

Adaryukov¹,

Grunevski²,

Reed³

et al. 2022

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As information about COVID-19 safety behavior changed, people had to judge how likely others were to protect themselves through mask-wearing and vaccination seeking. In a large, campus-wide survey, we assessed whether University of Kansas students viewed others' protective behaviors as different from their own, how much students assumed others would share their beliefs and behaviors, and which individual differences were associated with those estimations. Participants in our survey (N = 1,704; 81.04% white, 64.08% female) evaluated how likely they and others were to wear masks on the University of Kansas campus, wear masks off-campus, and seek a vaccine. They also completed measures of political preference, numeracy, and preferences for risk in various contexts. We found that participants estimated that others would be less likely to engage in health safety behaviors than themselves, but that their estimations of others were widely shared. In addition, of all the individual differences we assessed, political preference displayed the most consistent associations across health behaviors. Not only was false uniqueness ubiquitous across different forms of COVID-19 safety behavior, it was indeed false - estimates of others' health behavior were lower than their actual rates. Understanding this relationship could allow for more accurate norm-setting and normalization of mask-wearing and vaccination.

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Section: Individual Difference Measuresmentioning

confidence: 85%

Section: Perceptions Of Self-other Differencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

I'm wearing a mask, but are they?: Perceptions of Self-Other Differences in COVID-19 Health Behaviors

Adaryukov¹,

Grunevski²,

Reed³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…It is also consistent with conservatives’ tendency to endorse moral values that prioritize the in-group (Graham et al, 2009) and to engage in more ideologically homogeneous Twitter networks (Barberá et al, 2015; Boutyline & Willer, 2017). Conversely, findings suggest that liberals tend to be more accepting of uncertainty (Jost et al, 2017) and have a higher motivation for uniqueness (Blanchar et al, 2021; Stern et al, 2014). The authors also assume that when conservatives seek sources of information, they turn toward more local and immediate groups (e.g., friends, church, community organizations; Jost et al, 2008).…”

Section: Liberal Consensus Effectmentioning

confidence: 91%

Leftists Possess More National Consensus in Europe in One of Two Data Sets

Brandt

Aron

Parker

et al. 2021

Social Psychological and Personality Science

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A regularity in the U.S. American politics is that liberals have more policy consensus than do conservatives, and both ideological groups have more consensus than moderates. One explanation for this is that conservatives’ local conformity paradoxically results in less consensus than liberals at the national level. If so, then the liberal consensus effect should also be observed in other countries. We test this using data from Europe. In the European Social Survey (country N = 38, participant N = 376,129), we find that on average leftists have more consensus than do rightists; however, we do not find this using the Eurobarometer (country N = 18, participant N = 375,830). In both data sources, we also observe variation in ideological differences between countries. These results suggest that there is a liberal/leftist consensus effect on average, that can be found in Europe and the United States, but there are also exceptions.

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“…Political preference . Political preference is particularly notable as a predictor in this study due to its demonstrated associations both with false consensus [ 37 ] and willingness to engage in health and safety measures [ 42 , 43 ]. Furthermore, older [ 27 ] and more recent [ 17 , 44 ] studies have connected political identity (liberal vs. conservative) to both false consensus and false uniqueness, with liberals displaying more false uniqueness and conservatives displaying more false consensus.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some of these differences are consistent with factors that impact the false consensus effect. For instance, false consensus manifests more when comparing oneself to the same gender [ 36 ] and the same overall political orientation [ 17 , 37 ]. Thus, we also use this study to investigate a third question:…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

I’m wearing a mask, but are they?: Perceptions of self-other differences in COVID-19 health behaviors

et al. 2022

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As information about COVID-19 safety behavior changed, people had to judge how likely others were to protect themselves through mask-wearing and vaccination seeking. In a large, campus-wide survey, we assessed whether University of Kansas students viewed others’ protective behaviors as different from their own, how much students assumed others shared their beliefs and behaviors, and which individual differences were associated with those estimations. Participants in our survey (N = 1, 704; 81.04% white, 64.08% female) estimated how likely they and others were to have worn masks on the University of Kansas campus, have worn masks off-campus, and to seek a vaccine. They also completed measures of political preference, numeracy, and preferences for risk in various contexts. We found that participants estimated that others were less likely to engage in health safety behaviors than themselves, but that their estimations of others were widely shared. While, in general, participants saw themselves as more unique in terms of practicing COVID-19 preventative behaviors, more liberal participants saw themselves as more unique, while those that were more conservative saw their own behavior as more similar to others. At least for masking, this uniqueness was false—estimates of others’ health behavior were lower than their actual rates. Understanding this relationship could allow for more accurate norm-setting and normalization of mask-wearing and vaccination.

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A Replication of Stern, West, and Schmitt (2014) Indicates Less False Consensus Among Liberals Than Conservatives, But No False Uniqueness

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

I'm wearing a mask, but are they?: Perceptions of Self-Other Differences in COVID-19 Health Behaviors

I'm wearing a mask, but are they?: Perceptions of Self-Other Differences in COVID-19 Health Behaviors

Leftists Possess More National Consensus in Europe in One of Two Data Sets

I’m wearing a mask, but are they?: Perceptions of self-other differences in COVID-19 health behaviors

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