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	Pluralistic ignorance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In social psychology, pluralistic ignorance is a process which involves several members of a group who think that they have different perceptions, beliefs, or attitudes from the rest of the group.
		Pluralistic ignorance partially explains the bystander effect: the observation that people are more likely to intervene in an emergency situation when alone than when other persons are present.
		Some people think that pluralistic ignorance explains the happenings in the murder case of Kitty Genovese: 38 witnesses failed to help her when she was stabbed to death.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pluralistic_ignorance (365 words)

	Pluralistic Ignorance in Local Political Media
		Pluralistic ignorance describes the situation when a minority position in public opinion is incorrectly perceived to be the majority position and vice versa (O'Gorman, 1975, 1979, 1980, O'Gorman and Garry, 1976, Taylor, 1982).
		Pluralistic ignorance assumes that respondents are not able to accurate assess the opinions and behaviors of others.
		Since the third-person effect is an element of pluralistic ignorance, perhaps the same is true with pluralistic ignorance generally -- the closer the audience, the lower the evidence of pluralistic ignorance.
	www.prin.edu /users/els/departments/poli_sci/state/behavior/pluralj.htm (2516 words)

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		Pluralistic ignorance is a psychological state characterized by the belief that one's private attitudes and judgments are different from those of others, even though one's public behavior is identical (Miller & McFarland, 1991).
		Although men appear to have been able to resolve pluralistic ignorance through internalization, it is important to note that at the beginning of their 2nd year in college, both men and women were experiencing pluralistic ignorance in equal measure.
		The norm misperception that arises in cases of pluralistic ignorance is most appropriately operationalized as a mean difference between the actual group norm and the perceived group norm; false consensus, on the other hand, is most appropriately operationalized as a positive correlation between ratings of the self and ratings of others.
	faculty-gsb.stanford.edu /millerd/docs/1993jpsp.htm (10897 words)

	The Effects of the Outdoor Action Frosh Trip on Freshmen's Adaptation to Princeton University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pluralistic ignorance is defined as a state where one "believes that their private thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are different from those of others, even though one’s public behavior is identical" (Miller and McFarland, 1991, p.287).
		In the context of pluralistic ignorance, people may be afraid to express their viewpoints, which are shared by the majority, because they are under the impression that those viewpoints are deviant.
		Even though exposing students to pluralistic ignorance did not change their perception of the drinking norms on campus, the fact that it did affect the prescriptive strength of the norm is promising news.
	www.outdoorsafety.org /articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=118 (4958 words)

	Benoît Monin's homepage
		Pluralistic ignorance (Miller, Monin and Prentice, 2000) refers to cases where the majority’s attitude is misperceived due to publicly misrepresented attitudes.
		Again, pluralistic ignorance functions such that the exact same behavior, when observed in others, connotes a different meaning and is seen as reflecting more deep-seated attitudes.
		In this particular study we were able to investigate pluralistic ignorance alongside other biases in the estimation of consensus - such as the uniqueness bias, the false consensus effect, and false polarization - and to document their evolution as the crisis unfolded over five days.
	psychology.stanford.edu /~monin (1941 words)

	Third Person Effects in Local Political Media
		Pluralistic ignorance occurs when people believe that others behave or are influenced in a different manner, regardless of their majority or minority status.
		Conservative bias is the form of pluralistic ignorance in which people believe that others behave or are influence to a lesser degree, hence the reference to conservative.
		The third person effect is a form of pluralistic ignorance, specifically related to influence, in which people believe that others are influenced to a greater degree than themselves.
	www.prin.edu /users/els/departments/poli_sci/state/behavior/thirdg.htm (2854 words)

	Gay,Lesbian,Straight Education Network: What Do We Really Think? A Group Exercise to Increase Heterosexual Ally Behavior
		Pluralistic Ignorance is the term that is used in academia to discuss Social Norms Theory and refers to the incorrect belief that one’s private attitudes, judgments or behavior are different from others.
		Pluralistic Ignorance thus serves to strengthen beliefs and values that the "carriers" do not themselves hold.
		Pluralistic Ignorance is self-perpetuating because it discourages the expression of opinions and actions that one falsely believes are non-conforming.
	www.glsen.org /cgi-bin/iowa/educator/library/record/888.html (1485 words)

	Outdoor Ed - Articles
		The trip also provides an excellent opportunity to diffuse pluralistic ignorance because participants spend 5 days with their peers talking about issues that are very important to them.
		Frosh Trips are environments conducive to the diffusing of pluralistic ignorance because participants are encouraged to move out from behind their faade and present their true self.
		First of all, pluralistic ignorance research indicates that a negative self-other discrepancy results in situations where individuals are not presenting themselves authentically, and the beginning weeks of college seem like a perfect example of this situation (see the scenario described at the end of the first section of the Introduction).
	www.outdoored.com /articles/article.aspx?articleid=118 (11152 words)

	Higher Education Center: The Social Norms Approach: Theory, Research and Annotated Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pluralistic ignorance encourages individuals to suppress healthy attitudes and behaviors that are falsely thought to be non-conforming and to provide encouragement to engage in the unhealthy behaviors that are seen incorrectly as normative.
		Social norms interventions correct pluralistic ignorance by informing the majority that their behavior is actually more normative and healthy than they think.
		The combination of false consensus and pluralistic ignorance allows these heavy drinking “subculture custodians” to have an influence that is greatly disproportionate to their numbers by strengthening their voice and suppressing the voice of the “silent majority” who may favor policy initiatives and interventions to curb abuse.
	www.higheredcenter.org /socialnorms/theory/misperceptions.html (1004 words)

	Scrollin’ On Dubs » Blog Archive » Pluralistic Ignorance
		In an emergency situation, understanding the concept of pluralistic ignorance, the bystander effect and how to slice through them could prove life-saving.
		The extreme example that illustrates the concept of pluralistic ignorance (PI) is the 1964 murder of a woman in NYC.
		This lady was stabbed to death in broad daylight over the course of two hours and the act was witnessed by no less than forty bystanders, yet nobody did a thing to intervene.
	www.scrollinondubs.com /index.php?p=63 (973 words)

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		They are not only clear and simple to understand, but it attractively forces readers to step back and reevaluate their own beliefs and ideas about hooking up and their own levels of comfort within the subject.
		They want to know about pluralistic ignorance which “exists within a group of individuals, in which each person believes his or her private attitudes beliefs or judgments are discrepant from the norm displayed by public behavior of others.” These writers hypothesized that with college students, pluralistic ignorance was high.
		It was proven that pluralistic ignorance played a large role in alcohol consumption.
	www.unc.edu /courses/2003fall/engl/012/015/holistic1.doc (2083 words)

	Higher Education Center: The Social Norms Approach: Theory, Research and Annotated Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pluralistic Ignorance and the Perpetuation of Social Norms by Unwitting Actors.
		An overview of the authors’ extensive research on pluralistic ignorance along with theoretical explanations of how it operates in a variety of settings and for a variety of issues.
		Prentice, DA and Miller, DT (1996) Pluralistic Ignorance and The Perpetuation of Social Norms by Unwitting Actors.
	www.higheredcenter.org /socialnorms/theory/appendix.html (5259 words)

	McGraw-Hill/Dushkin: PowerWeb Article
		A thorough understanding of the pluralistic ignorance phenomenon helps explain a regular occurrence in our country that has been termed both a riddle and a national disgrace: the failure of entire groups of bystanders to aid victims in agonizing need of help.
		It seems that the pluralistic ignorance effect is strongest among strangers: Because we like to look graceful and sophisticated in public and because we are unfamiliar with the reactions of those we do not know, we are unlikely to give off or correctly read expressions of concern when in a group of strangers.
		The potentially tragic consequences of the pluralistic ignorance phenomenon are starkly illustrated in a UPI news release from Chicago: A university coed was beaten and strangled in daylight hours near one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city, police said Saturday.
	www.dushkin.com /olc/genarticle.mhtml?article=19480 (3434 words)

	CHAPTER 11
		Significant coverage is given to the bystander effect, diffusion of responsibility, and pluralistic ignorance.
		Discuss the bystander effect and the roles of diffusion of responsibility and pluralistic ignorance.
		Specifically, you should be able to discuss the importance of diffusion of responsibility and pluralistic ignorance for the effect.
	www.bordens2e.com /sg11-2e.htm (2418 words)

	Examples of Prosocial Investigations
		The second explanation is similar to the principle of social proof and is called pluralistic ignorance.
		Are diffusion of responsibility and pluralistic ignorance really factors that affect helping in an emergency situation?
		Pluralistic ignorance: Latane and Darley (1968) invited male college students for an interview.
	www1.appstate.edu /~beckhp/prosocial.htm (947 words)

	Pluralistic Ignorance Project - Home
		Simply put, pluralistic ignorance occurs when individual members of a group (such as a school, a team, a workplace, or a group of friends) believe that others in their group hold comparably more or less extreme attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors.
		If there is pluralistic ignorance at work, this actual group attitude will differ significantly from the average group attitude reported by the participants (the perceived norm).
		During the Spring of 1999, Fall of 1999, Fall of 2000, Fall of 2001, Fall of 2003, and Fall of 2004, Social Psychology 322 students collected campus wide data to learn about Reed norms.
	academic.reed.edu /psychology/pluralisticignorance/home.html (452 words)

	Metacognition in Health Judgment (NRSA); Norbert Schwarz
		The proposed research is designed to advance current knowledge about the psychological processes underlying people's estimates of group norms and their role in individual-level health attitudes and behaviors.
		Where past work demonstrates that social norms strongly influence people's personal health attitudes and behaviors, research on pluralistic ignorance shows that individuals often mis-judge group norms.
		Thus people's personal attitudes and behaviors may be affected by "norms" that do not actually exist.
	micda.psc.isr.umich.edu /prj-detail.html?ID=32946 (192 words)

	Pluralistic Ignorance and Hooking Up \| Essays
		Many areas of student behavior might be influenced by pluralistic ignorance.
		The practice of hooking up and other uncommitted sexual relations have been influenced by pluralistic ignorance.
		In a 2000 study it was shown that eighty-six percent of men and eighty-eight percent of women hooked up during their college careers.
	www.fratfiles.com /read.php?id=73285 (148 words)

	HOA Pluralistic Ignorance (PI) - Real Estate Home House Condo
		This phenomena is called "pluralistic ignorance" (PI) by social psychologists.
		It is a state of mind in which people mistakenly think their own thoughts and feelings are different from those of people around them and look to others for cues instead of trusting their own instincts.
		When the danger appears to be ambiguous (unsure if the danger is real or perceived), the social rules of belonging and acceptance trump looking different or alarmist.
	www.nemmar.com /real-estate-HOA-Pluralistic-Ignorance-PI.html (960 words)

	Students (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this study we examined the extent to which pluralistic ignorance affects hooking up.
		We show that likelihood judgments are biased toward an ignorance-prior probability that assigns equal credence to each mutually exclusive event considered by the judge.
		The value of the ignorance prior depends crucially on how the set of possibilities...
	www.accelerated-learning-online.com /research/CTG-Students-10.asp (738 words)

	Pluralistic Ignorance
		Adopting these norms, even if you do not agree with them, is a part of the individual sacrifice that people accept as a price of group membership.
		Pluralistic ignorance occurs where the majority of individuals in a group assume that most of their others are different in some way, whilst the truth is that they are more similar than they realize.
		When most people do this, the supposed norm becomes the norm.
	www.changingminds.org /explanations/theories/pluralistic_ignorance.htm (260 words)

	Phil 145, Week 4
		Results from lack of data and biased data.
		This is the opposite of false consensus (everyone is like me): with pluralistic ignorance (everyone is different from me), people underestimate the extent of agreement.
		Tendency to overestimate the extent to which other people agree with you
	cogsci.uwaterloo.ca /courses/Phil145/Phil145.Week4.html (481 words)

	The Washington Times: It's time to rid Richmond of 'pluralistic ignorance'.(LIFE)(METROPOLITAN LIFE)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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		It's time to rid Richmond of 'pluralistic ignorance'.(LIFE)(METROPOLITAN LIFE)
		Well, that's what happens when otherwise responsible people go along to get along as the group engages in stupid stuff even though they all know that what they are doing is dead wrong.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:87744863&refid=ink_tptd_np (174 words)

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		Are there any beliefs at ILR that might not be as widely shared as everyone believes?
	www.ilr.cornell.edu /directory/downloads/Pluralistic_Ignorance.ppt (921 words)

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