A ‘curse of knowledge’ in the absence of knowledge? People misattribute fluency when judging how common knowledge is among their peers

Knowledge can be a curse: Once we have acquired a particular item of knowledge it tends to bias, or contaminate, our ability to reason about a less informed perspective (referred to as the ‘curse of knowledge’ or ‘hindsight bias’). The mechanisms underlying the curse of knowledge bias are a matter o...

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