If we were writing our book today we would emphasize a source of bias affecting inferences and judgments that we believe may be more truly “fundamental” – that is, the conviction that one’s own perceptions, inferences, judgments, etc are a reflection of objective reality. This epistemic stance, which Ross & Ward termed naive realism, leads us to expect other reasonable and objective people to share our views. It also leads us to attribute disagreements in judgment to something about them – i.e., dispositions, idiosyncratic circumstances and experiences, and other distorting cognitive,
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Refer to naive realism in paper.
