Accuracy in perceptions of consensus: Differential tendencies of people with majority and minority positions

Sanders, Glenn S.; Mullen, Brian

doi:10.1002/ejsp.2420130104

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“…It is realistic to postulate that both opponents and supporters should overestimate consensus for their respective position, though the literature agree that such a bias is more likely to characterize minority groups. Indeed, minorities seem to have a greater need than majorities for seeking acknowledgement and legitimateness for their position (Sanders & Mullen, 1983;Suls & Wan, 1987). These findings are consistent with a motivational perspective that accentuates the need to justify counter-normative behaviors.…”

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confidence: 68%

The false consensus effect: A trigger of radicalization in locally unwanted land uses conflicts?

Mannarini

Roccato

Russo

2015

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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Section: This Interpretation Led the First Researchers Into This Topisupporting

confidence: 68%

The false consensus effect: A trigger of radicalization in locally unwanted land uses conflicts?

Mannarini

Roccato

Russo

2015

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…Second, exposure to, and inclusion of, diverse opinions can also lead to more divergent, out of the box thinking, which can improve individual and group problem solving and decision-making [14,15]. Third, there is a natural tendency for people, particularly those in the minority, to think that their own views are more broadly shared than they actually are [18]. Having a better assessment of their true popularity may lead people to accept the legitimacy of disagreeable outcomes in the political sphere, rather than concocting conspiracy theories to explain how the supposed majority will was thwarted.…”

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Presenting diverse political opinions

Munson

Resnick

2010

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Is a polarized society inevitable, where people choose to be exposed to only political news and commentary that reinforces their existing viewpoints? We examine the relationship between the numbers of supporting and challenging items in a collection of political opinion items and readers' satisfaction, and then evaluate whether simple presentation techniques such as highlighting agreeable items or showing them first can increase satisfaction when fewer agreeable items are present. We find individual differences: some people are diversity-seeking while others are challenge-averse. For challenge-averse readers, highlighting appears to make satisfaction with sets of mostly agreeable items more extreme, but does not increase satisfaction overall, and sorting agreeable content first appears to decrease satisfaction rather than increasing it. These findings have important implications for builders of websites that aggregate content reflecting different positions.

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“…This could help everyone to understand the relative popularity of different viewpoints. There is a natural tendency for people, particularly those in the minority, to think that their own views are more broadly shared than they actually are [13]. Having a better assessment of their true popularity may lead people to accept the legitimacy of disagreeable outcomes in the political sphere, rather than concocting conspiracy theories to explain how the supposed majority will was thwarted.…”

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“…Learning consists of both knowledge of political issues and how widely held different political views are -some presentations of information may better overcome the false consensus effect [13]. We expect to identify both optimal practices and tradeoffs.…”

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Designing interfaces for presentation of opinion diversity

Munson

Zhou

Resnick

2009

CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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News aggregators rely on links and users votes to select and present subsets of the large quantity of news and opinion items generated each day. Opinion diversity in the output sets can provide several benefits. We outline a range of diversity goals and discuss user reactions to a pilot implementation that selects for diversity as well as popularity. We then describe plans for research on alternative presentations and their impacts on users.

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Accuracy in perceptions of consensus: Differential tendencies of people with majority and minority positions

Cited by 63 publications

References 16 publications

The false consensus effect: A trigger of radicalization in locally unwanted land uses conflicts?

The false consensus effect: A trigger of radicalization in locally unwanted land uses conflicts?

Presenting diverse political opinions

Designing interfaces for presentation of opinion diversity

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