Overestimating the Prevalence of Minority Groups: Perceived Threat, Media Exposure, and Generalized Misestimation Bias

• In Event: Evaluating others: Knowledge & Prejudice

Brief Overview

This papers explores the cognitive roots of demographic estimation and proposes a new account for the public’s tendency to consistently overestimate the size of minority populations.

Authors

• Brian Guay, Duke University

• David Landy, Indiana University

• Cara Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Tyler Marghetis, Indiana University, Bloomington