Meta-Perceptions
We make assumptions about what other people think about us. We try to do their perceiving for them and are often wrong.
Examples
The Divide Between Political Parties Feels Big. Fortunately, It’s Smaller Than We Think.
We found that both Democrats and Republicans disliked and dehumanized the other party more than their own; however, both Democrats and Republicans estimated that the other group dehumanized and disliked their group about twice as much as in reality. In other words, both Democrats and Republicans greatly overestimated how much the other disliked and dehumanized them.