What Underlies the False Consensus Effect? How Personal Opinion and Disagreement Affect Perception of Public Opinion

Journal Article What Underlies the False Consensus Effect? How Personal Opinion and Disagreement Affect Perception of Public Opinion Get access Magdalena Wojcieszak, Magdalena Wojcieszak Magdalena Wojcieszak (M.A. Sociology, University of Warsaw; Ph.D. Communications, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor of Political Communication at the IE School of Communication at the IE University. Vincent Price (Ph.D., Communication, Stanford University) is the Steven H. Chaffee Professor of Communication and Political Science at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Data presented here were gathered under grants from the Pew Charitable Trust and the Annenberg Public Policy Center to Vincent Price and Joseph N. Cappella. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Vincent Price Vincent Price Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 21, Issue 1, Spring 2009, Pages 25–46, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edp001 Published: 04 March 2009 Article history Received: 24 April 2008 Accepted: 24 October 2008 Published: 04 March 2009