Pluralistic ignorance may explain the errors in the polls regarding the presidential election this year. Pluralistic ignorance is manifest in situations in which individuals’ public behaviors are the ...

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There’s a reason why you should embrace being the stupidest, most obnoxious, loud-mouthed, stick-in-the-mud of any group. In some cases, you’re providing free entertainment. In others, you’re saying ...

Pluralistic ignorance may explain the errors in the polls regarding the presidential election. Pluralistic ignorance is manifest in situations when a majority of individuals act the same as others, ...

Are you sick of the people around you doing their own thinking? Here’s a psychological concept you can exploit. It’s called pluralistic ignorance, and it ensures that everyone goes along with an idea ...

In Hans Christian Andersen's story, The Emperor's New Clothes, fraudsters sew the king a suit made of air but persuade his court that only the "unworthy" cannot see it. Although the king and his ...

Those studies have generally focused on the US population, but the public acceptance of climate change is fairly similar in Australia. There, a new study has looked at how societal tendencies can play ...

In Tyler Hamilton's 2012 book The Secret Race (written with Daniel Coyle), the cyclist exposes the most sophisticated doping program in the history of sports, orchestrated by Lance Armstrong, the ...

On Oct. 24, 2009, as many as 20 witnesses watched as a 15-year-old girl was brutally assaulted and raped outside a homecoming dance in Richmond, CA. The viciousness of the attack was shocking, but ...