Pluralistic ignorance and social stigma
Publication Date
December 14, 2023
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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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ethesis
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MRes
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School of Economics (UK)
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76490
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