Immediately following a weekend of nationally televised U.S. Senate hearings, 53 students completed a questionnaire indicating whether they, same-sex, and opposite-sex students thought Judge Clarence Thomas (a) should be confirmed for the Supreme Court and (b) had sexually harassed Anita Hill. Although there were no sex differences in actual opinions, both sexes presumed gender linkage. Results consistently supported a false consensus effect with one major exception: women who thought Thomas had sexually harassed Hill estimated that relatively few men would agree.
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