@article{ref1,
title="False consensus effect, physical aggression, anger, and a willingness to escalate a disturbance",
journal="Aggressive behavior",
year="1995",
author="Russell, Gordon W. and Arms, Robert L.",
volume="21",
number="5",
pages="381-386",
abstract="The present investigation sought to establish the relationships between two measures of aggression and both subjects' self-reported attraction to fights and likelihood that they would join in a crowd disturbance. Subjects were adult males (N = 63) interviewed at an ice hockey game. Tests of the false consensus effect [Ross et al. (1977): Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 13:279-301] were also undertaken, Physical aggression and anger bore strong, positive correlations with subjects' liking to watch the fights and the likelihood of their escalating a crowd disturbance, Support for the false consensus effect was found insofar as those attracted to the fights and those who would escalate a disturbance estimated a disproportionately greater number of other spectators were similarly attracted to fights and would take similar action, The implications for unruly crowd behaviors were discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0096-140X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}