how the false consensus effect drives environmental damage
- Written by Brock Bergseth, Postdoctoral research fellow, James Cook University
ShutterstockThere’s a useful concept from psychology that helps explain why good people do things that harm the environment: the false consensus effect. That’s where we overestimate how acceptable and prevalent our own behaviour is in society.
Put simply, if you’re doing something (even if you secretly know you probably...





