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## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 85 — a085

# Julia Minson

**Profile.** Julia Minson is a Harvard professor (Harvard Kennedy School) specializing in the science of decision-making, conflict, and disagreement.

**Role in the source.** The academic authority who supplies both the intuitive analogy and the empirical study behind two of false alignment's three drivers.

**Attributed contributions to this vault.** She provided the [[quote-minson-vanilla|'vanilla ice cream' analogy]] for the [[concept-false-consensus-effect|false consensus effect]], and conducted the study on [[concept-affective-forecasting-error|affective forecasting error]] in which participants who merely *imagined* watching a video of an opposing-party senator expected it to be much worse than those who [[quote-minson-affective|actually watched it]] found it to be.