everybody else or another "unspeci fied" individual is doing, they exhibit a consensus bias (believing that others are similar … shows that not accounting for the biases will typically bias estimates of game-theoretic thinking upwards. …

assessment (Experiment 1) or to the trait’s definition (Experiments 2 and 3) reduces or eliminates this bias in judgment overall …. The difficulty of possessing a desirable trait (Experiment 4) or succeeding on math and logic problems (Experiment 5 … (Experiment 6). Overall, the results suggest motivation’s effect on BTA beliefs is driven more by idiosyncratic construals of …