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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207 - A Slight Change of Plans - Maya Shankar
206 - Narcissism
205 - Unfollow - Megan Phelps-Roper
204 - On Being Certain - Robert Burton
203 - Transcend - Scott Barry Kaufman
202 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast)
201 - Good Dog - Kate Leaver
200 - Socks and Crocs (rebroadcast)
199 - Math Without Numbers - Milo Beckman
198 - Reflection and Insurrection
197 - Conspiratorial Thinking
196 - Art (rebroadcast)
195 - Clearer Thinking - Spencer Greenberg
194 - Because Internet - Gretchen McCulloch
193 - Gossip
192 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (rebroadcast)
191 - Livewired - David Eagleman
190 - Learned Helplessness (rebroadcast)
189 - The Vaccine
188 - The Happiness Lab - Laurie Santos (rebroadcast)
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