How strong is the association between social media use and false consensus?

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Highlights：

• Heavier social media users showed higher rates of false consensus effects across a range of psychological characteristics.

• Metanalysis, equivalence testing, and analyses controlling for demographics showed these effects to be reliable and robust.

• These findings are consistent with an “echo chamber” view of social media.

• However, the effects were small by conventional standards and weaker than assumed by laypeople.

摘要

•Heavier social media users showed higher rates of false consensus effects across a range of psychological characteristics.•Metanalysis, equivalence testing, and analyses controlling for demographics showed these effects to be reliable and robust.•These findings are consistent with an “echo chamber” view of social media.•However, the effects were small by conventional standards and weaker than assumed by laypeople.

论文关键词：False consensus,Social media,Social networking sites,Echo chamber,Personality

论文评审过程：Received 18 April 2021, Revised 7 June 2021, Accepted 6 July 2021, Available online 7 July 2021, Version of Record 10 July 2021.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106947