Explaining away the illusion of consensus.

Consensus among sources often signals a claim's trustworthiness. However, when all sources simply echo information from a single origin, an "illusion of consensus" can arise, leading individuals to feel equally convinced by a dependent consensus (a single, repeatedly cited source) as by an independe...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 5; pp. 1667 - 1688
Main Authors:	Connor Desai, Saoirse, Fai, Jacqueline, Lee, Jaimie, Hayes, Brett K.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Jul2026
Subjects:	Consensus (Social sciences) Social media Task performance Social perception Confidence Decision making Public opinion Judgment (Psychology) Practical politics Psychological tests Cognition Research funding Persuasion (Rhetoric) Probability theory Descriptive statistics Experimental design Causality (Physics) Statistics Data analysis software
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