There are several ways to define pluralistic ignorance, and that’s because it’s kind of a brain twister when you try to put it into words. On certain issues, most people people believe that most people believe what, in truth, few people believe. Or put another way, it is the erroneous belief that the majority is acting in a way that matches its internal philosophies, and that you are one of a small number of people who feel differently, when in reality the majority agrees with you on the inside but is afraid to admit it outright or imply such through its behavior. Everyone in a group, at the same time, gets stuck following a norm that no one wants to follow, because everyone is carrying a shared, false belief about everyone else’s unshared true beliefs.
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067 - The Fallacy Fallacy
065 - Survivorship Bias (rebroadcast)
064 - Monkey Marketplace - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)
063 - The Search Effect - Matthew Fisher
062 - Naive Realism - Lee Ross
061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft
060 - Reframing - Robert R. Morris
059 - The Illusion Of Control - Michael And Sarah Bennett
058 - Technology - Clive Thompson (Rebroadcast)
057 - PTSD - Robert D. Laird
056 - Magicians And Scams - Brian Brushwood
055 - WEIRD People - Steven J. Heine
054 - The Self - Bruce Hood (rebroadcast)
053 - Adaptive Learning - Ulrik Christensen
052 - Learned Helplessness
051 - Work - Laszlo Bock
050 - Happy Money - Elizabeth Dunn (rebroadcast)
049 - Rejection - Jia Jiang
048 - Contact
047 - Public Shaming - Jon Ronson
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