Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma
Pluralistic ignorance, a discrepancy between private beliefs and public understanding of these beliefs, is a social phenomenon which has been shown to have significant welfare consequences, but relatively little is understood about its origins. In this paper, we propose social stigma as a potential...
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| description | Pluralistic ignorance, a discrepancy between private beliefs and public understanding of these beliefs, is a social phenomenon which has been shown to have significant welfare consequences, but relatively little is understood about its origins. In this paper, we propose social stigma as a potential driver of pluralistic ignorance and design a survey structure intended to test for a relationship between this stigma and pluralistic ignorance across sociopolitical issues. As we are without results, we survey the literature and produce a short theoretical framework to motivate the research design, and also describe future directions for the research project. |
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| spelling | nottingham-764902024-01-12T11:55:33Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76490/ Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma Stockley, Kieran Pluralistic ignorance, a discrepancy between private beliefs and public understanding of these beliefs, is a social phenomenon which has been shown to have significant welfare consequences, but relatively little is understood about its origins. In this paper, we propose social stigma as a potential driver of pluralistic ignorance and design a survey structure intended to test for a relationship between this stigma and pluralistic ignorance across sociopolitical issues. As we are without results, we survey the literature and produce a short theoretical framework to motivate the research design, and also describe future directions for the research project. 2023-12-14 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76490/1/stockley_k_mres_dissertation_final.pdf Stockley, Kieran (2023) Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma. MRes thesis, University of Nottingham. pluralistic ignorance social stigma misperceptions |
| spellingShingle | pluralistic ignorance social stigma misperceptions Stockley, Kieran Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma |
| title | Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma |
| title_full | Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma |
| title_fullStr | Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma |
| title_short | Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma |
| title_sort | pluralistic ignorance and social stigma |
| topic | pluralistic ignorance social stigma misperceptions |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76490/ |