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| What we believe is highly influenced by what we think _____ believe. |
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| Because our beliefs appear to enjoy more social support than is actually the case, they are ____ than they would be otherwise. |
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| are unaware of possessing themselves. |
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| Freud was concerned with the special case of people detecting characteristics in others that they _____. |
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| know they themselves possess. |
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| Since Freud's time there has also developed an extensive literature on the tendency of individuals to attribute to others characteristics that they ______. |
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| refers to the tendency for people's own beliefs, values and habits to bias their estimates of who widely such views and habit are shared by others. |
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| The false consensus effect refers to a tendency for people's estimates to be ____ with their own beliefs. |
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| The false consensus effect is partly a ______ that stems from our desire to maintain a positive assessment of our own judgment - a desire that is bolstered by thinking that our beliefs our beliefs lie in the mainstream. |
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| Because we so often encounter arguments and evidence in support of our beliefs while generally staying clear of information that contradicts them, our beliefs appear to be ____ than they would if we were exposed to a less biased body of information. |
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| people and their opinions. |
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| In addition to being exposed to a biased set of arguments relevant to a given belief, we are also exposed to a biased sample of _____. |
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| our own behavior; behavior of others |
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| We believe, in other words, that what are powerful situational influences on _____ should govern the ____ as well. |
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| People construe the same choices _____ and people generally fail to recognize this fact and thus fail to make adequate allowances for it when making consensus estimates. |
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| People are generally _____ to openly question another person's beliefs. |
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| essential corrective feedback |
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| More casual acquaintances generally try to sidestep the awkwardness of disagreement and thus leave us without ______. |
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| A second source of evidence for people's reluctance to openly disagree with others can be found in _______. |
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| People generally try to avoid potential _____ with others. |
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| _____ often spoils our social encounters, and it is understandable that people might want to feign agreement to head off conflict and disharmony. |
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| _____ can be seen as a vehicle through which we release the pent-up dissent we are unable to express directly. |
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| Our own imperfect knowledge is combined with that held by others. By consulting other people's knowledge, we can see things from several angles and can try to make adjustments for any biases in our own knowledge base. |
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| Because so much disagreement remains hidden, our beliefs are not properly shaped by healthy ______. |
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