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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147 - The Replication Crisis (rebroadcast)
146 - Tribal Psychology (rebroadcast)
145 - Team Human
144 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four (rebroadcast)
143 - How to Talk to People About Things
142 - Debate (rebroadcast)
141 - Not A Scientist
140 - Machine Bias (rebroadcast)
139 - The Friendship Cure
138 - Evil
137 - Narrative Persuasion (rebroadcast)
136 - Prevalence Induced Concept Change
135 - Optimism Bias (rebroadcast)
134 - The Elaboration Likelihood Model
133 - Uncivil Agreement
132 - Practice (rebroadcast)
131 - The Marshmallow Replication
130 - The Half LIfe of Facts (rebroadcast)
129 - Desirability Bias (rebroadcast)
128 - Happy Brain
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