When a student notices conspicuous examples of drunkenness around campus, which causes him/her to assume that everybody is drinking heavily, and therefore, begins to engage in binge drinking, it is known as

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The false consensus effect is a cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their beliefs, values, behaviors, and habits are normal and typical of those of others. In this scenario, the student is assuming that heavy drinking is the norm based on conspicuous examples, leading to an overestimation of how common this behavior is among peers.

When a Student Notices Conspicuous Examples of Drunkenness Around Campus