What is pluralistic ignorance?
pluralistic ignorance assumes that, under certain circumstances, most people will falsely believe that others correspond to certain ideas or standards, and also adhere to them while they disagree with them privately. Because there is a fear of disagreement with what is considered to be a norm, situation or behavior that few people actually support. This is the concept of social psychology, which first pointed out in the 1930s Floyd Allport and Daniel Katz. This can also be called a misconception in the uniqueness of a person that stands in the way of action or change. When a person builds a crime victim, a larger number of people who observe it are reflected in less likely to hit someone. Everyone shares the wrong belief that someone else will enter and help. Zločin and believe that someone should help, he or she strongly attributes the idea that the helper will be another individual. For this reason, people in the class of self -defense often learn to appeal to a single individual to shake from this persona pluralistic view. In addition, if several people start to help, it is likely that most of the group will also start to intervene.
Other examples of pluralistic ignorance are not difficult to find. Many Germans living during the Second World War sentenced Hitler's action, but they thought they were the only ones who did it. Similarly, many white Southern southern in the US have prevented slavery or laws of Jim Crow that followed. Because they believed that their opinions were unique, they did not proceed forward to seek justice called African Americans. During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, however, many White Southern participated in vitality because they were aware that many people shared their personal resistance about discrimination.
It could be said that pluralistic ignorance is an ironic desire to adapt to a larger group. People act or do not work on the basis of false thoughts of values that group Drip, and the belief that any differences from the group are a minority opinion. This is irony, because the estimate of what the group believes is incorrect, and most members actually share the view of opposition to the values that the group supports.
Numerous researchers in social psychology studied pluralistic ignorance in various environments. It has been examined in bullying behavior, in the attitudes of drinking at university and in various environments where ethics and values are maintained or ignored. These studies seem to indicate that pluralistic ignorance is common and the desire to be part of the group can lead an individual and the whole group to maintain standards that they really disagree with.