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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Show Notes
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127 - Selfie
126 - Separate Spheres (rebroadcast)
125 - Status Quo Rationalization
124 - Belief Change Blindness
123 - Active Information Avoidance (rebroadcast)
122 - Tribal Psychology
121 - Progress (rebroadcast)
120 - The Backfire Effect - Part Four
119 - The Unpersuadables
118 - Connections (rebroadcast)
117 - Idiot Brain (rebroadcast)
116 - Reality (rebroadcast)
115 - Machine Bias
114 - Moral Arguments (rebroadcast)
113 - Narrative Persuasion
112 - Change My View (rebroadcast)
111 - Collective Intelligence
110 - Sleep Deprivation and Bias
109 - The Search Effect (rebroadcast)
108 - Pandora's Lab
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