5 ideas from Lee Ross, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.
People systematically overestimate how many others share their own beliefs, habits and choices. In a classic 1977 study, Stanford students who agreed to wear an advertising sandwic…
— Lee Ross, David Greene & Pamela House, The 'False Consensus Effect': An Egocentric Bias in Social Perception and Attribution Processes
People consistently rate themselves as less biased than the average person, their own classmates, or strangers at an airport — even right after being taught exactly how a specific …
— Emily Pronin, Daniel Y. Lin, Lee Ross, The Bias Blind Spot: Perceptions of Bias in Self Versus Others
When someone else cuts you off in traffic, it's easy to assume they're simply reckless. When you do the same thing, you point to the emergency you're rushing to. Social psychologis…
— Lee Ross, The Intuitive Psychologist and His Shortcomings
Researchers gave people false feedback on a task, then fully explained the feedback had been randomly assigned and meant nothing. People's opinions of their own ability barely move…
— Lee Ross, Mark Lepper & Michael Hubbard, Perseverance in Self-Perception and Social Perception: Biased Attributional Processes in the Debriefing Paradigm
Naive realism is the quiet assumption that your own perception of a situation is simply objective reality, unfiltered by any personal slant. It follows that anyone who sees things …
— Lee Ross and Andrew Ward, Naive Realism in Everyday Life: Implications for Social Conflict and Misunderstanding