We expect the people we meet to be more or less the same as we are.Social psychologists call this the:

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The false consensus effect is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors. This means that we expect the people we meet to be more or less the same as we are, which is exactly what the question is asking for. Option A, fundamental attribution error, is the tendency to overemphasize dispositional (internal) explanations for others' behavior rather than situational (external) explanations. Option B, just-world hypothesis, is the belief that people get what they deserve in life, which is not relevant to this question. Option C, self-serving bias, is the tendency to take credit for our successes and blame external factors for our failures, which is again not relevant to this question.

We Expect the People We Meet to Be More or Less