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## Segment 7 — governance

## Article 85 — a085

# Lee Ross

**Profile.** Lee Ross was a Stanford social psychologist.

**Role in the source.** The cited originator of a key bias underpinning false alignment.

**Attributed contribution to this vault.** Along with colleagues, he **coined the term [[concept-false-consensus-effect|'false consensus effect']]** — the tendency to overestimate the prevalence of one's own beliefs. The foundational empirical work is the Ross, Greene & House (1977) experiments demonstrating that individuals believe others share their preferences and attitudes more than is actually true.