The false consensus effect refers to:
a) the tendency to allocate a set of attributes to someone if they match the prototype of a given category
b) the tendency to make dispositional attributions when thinking about other peoples’ behaviour
c) the tendency to exaggerate how common one’s own opinions are in the general population
d) the tendency to judge the frequency or probability of an event in terms of how easy it is to think of examples of that event
CORRECT = C
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