Pluralistic Ignorance and Alcohol Use on Campus¶
Prentice, D. A., & Miller, D. T. (1993). Pluralistic Ignorance and Alcohol Use on Campus: Some Consequences of Misperceiving the Social Norm. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 64(2), 243-256.
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Primes¶
- Conformity
- Pluralistic ignorance — in which most members of a group privately reject a norm but mistakenly believe most others accept it, and so publicly comply — shows that conformity can sustain a standard that almost no one privately holds.
This sourceDocuments pluralistic ignorance: individuals privately reject a norm but conform because they mistakenly believe most others accept it — supports the perceived-not-real-consensus claim. Live-verified (PubMed).
- Pluralistic ignorance — in which most members of a group privately reject a norm but mistakenly believe most others accept it, and so publicly comply — shows that conformity can sustain a standard that almost no one privately holds.
- Pluralistic Ignorance
- In social psychology, its origin substrate, it is the classroom in which no student understands the lecture but each, seeing no one else ask a question, infers that everyone else understands and so stays silent — and the campus-drinking studies in which most students privately feel uncomfortable with heavy drinking yet, observing the visible party behavior, believe their peers are genuinely enthusiastic, so the unpopular norm is enforced by a majority who privately reject it.
This sourceShows students privately uncomfortable with campus drinking misperceive peers as enthusiastic, and that correcting the misperceived norm reduces drinking.
- In social psychology, its origin substrate, it is the classroom in which no student understands the lecture but each, seeing no one else ask a question, infers that everyone else understands and so stays silent — and the campus-drinking studies in which most students privately feel uncomfortable with heavy drinking yet, observing the visible party behavior, believe their peers are genuinely enthusiastic, so the unpopular norm is enforced by a majority who privately reject it.
- Private-Public Preference Divergence
- In social psychology, its origin substrate, it is the classroom where no student understands but each, seeing no questions, infers universal comprehension and stays silent, and the campus-drinking paradox where most students privately favor moderation yet, reading the visible party behavior, believe their peers are genuinely enthusiastic — the unpopular norm enforced by a private majority who reject it.
This sourceDocuments the campus-drinking pluralistic-ignorance gap and that correcting the misperceived norm reduces it.
- In social psychology, its origin substrate, it is the classroom where no student understands but each, seeing no questions, infers universal comprehension and stays silent, and the campus-drinking paradox where most students privately favor moderation yet, reading the visible party behavior, believe their peers are genuinely enthusiastic — the unpopular norm enforced by a private majority who reject it.
Mechanisms¶
- Aggregate Norm-Correction Report
- Its strength is that it dissolves pluralistic ignorance — the state in which most people privately reject a norm but each wrongly believes they are alone
This sourceDocuments pluralistic ignorance as widespread private discomfort coupled with mistaken beliefs that peers accept the prevailing norm.
- Its strength is that it dissolves pluralistic ignorance — the state in which most people privately reject a norm but each wrongly believes they are alone
- Aggregate Pluralism Disclosure
- Its strength is dissolving pluralistic ignorance
This sourceDocuments widespread pluralistic ignorance in which students privately held more negative attitudes toward campus alcohol practices than they attributed to the average student.
- Its strength is dissolving pluralistic ignorance
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