In this episode we talk about pluralistic ignorance. Pluralistic ignorance is where we make an assumption about others' beliefs, and that assumption is wrong. The resources we talk about are:

Men as allies in STEM:

De Souza, L., & Schmader, T. (2022). The misjudgment of men: Does pluralistic ignorance inhibit allyship?. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(2), 265.

Pluralistic ignorance and climate change policies:

Sparkman, G., Geiger, N., & Weber, E. U. (2022). Americans experience a false social reality by underestimating popular climate policy support by nearly half. Nature communications, 13(1), 1-9.

Other things we mention:

Conformity studies:

Asch, S. E. (1956). Studies of independence and conformity: I. A minority of one against a unanimous majority. Psychological monographs: General and applied, 70(9), 1.

Bad data on MTurk:

Webb, M. A., & Tangney, J. P. (2022). Too Good to Be True: Bots and Bad Data From Mechanical Turk. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916221120027.