Pluralistic Ignorance and White Estimates of White Support for Racial Segregation¶
O'Gorman, H. J. (1975). Pluralistic Ignorance and White Estimates of White Support for Racial Segregation. Public Opinion Quarterly, 39(3), 313-330.
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- Pluralistic Ignorance
- In norm enforcement and prejudice, communities have sustained discriminatory or restrictive norms that a private majority opposed, because each member overestimated others' support — and the documented collapses when private opinion was revealed are textbook releases of the gap.
This sourceDocuments white Americans grossly overestimating other whites' support for segregation — a discriminatory norm sustained because each member overestimated others' support.
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The abstract of a 1968 national survey shows most white adults grossly exaggerated other whites' support for segregation, backing the false-consensus half only, not private majority opposition or any collapse on revelation.
“This article presents data, taken from a secondary analysis of a national survey, indicating that in 1968 most white American adults grossly exaggerated the support among other whites for racial segregation.”
- In norm enforcement and prejudice, communities have sustained discriminatory or restrictive norms that a private majority opposed, because each member overestimated others' support — and the documented collapses when private opinion was revealed are textbook releases of the gap.
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