What Is the False Consensus Effect

Multiple Choice

What is the false consensus effect?

A) people's tendency to underestimate the degree to which their own behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and so on are shared by other people
B) people's tendency to infer a causal relationship between two events even though they don't know the direction of causality
C) people's tendency to make a judgment based on what they can remember, rather than complete data
D) people's tendency to overestimate the degree to which their own behavior, attitudes, beliefs, and so on are shared by other people