Climate of silence: Pluralistic ignorance as a barrier to climate change discussion

Geiger, Nathaniel; Swim, Janet K.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvp.2016.05.002

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“…Such normative beliefs may influence recruitment and coordination behavior. Individuals appear more willing to reach out to others when they believe others are also concerned about the issue (i.e., there are strong “injunctive norms” around the issue) (Geiger & Swim ; Niemiec et al. ).…”

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“…). Interventions demonstrating that others are also concerned increase people's willingness to approach others about climate change (Geiger & Swim ).…”

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“…; Niemiec et al. ), and people appear unwilling to discuss environmental issues, even with close friends or family (Geiger & Swim ). It remains unclear how to encourage model landowners to move beyond focusing on their own property to reaching out to their neighbors to further conservation causes.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…). Changing perceptions of others’ beliefs can encourage discussion of environmental issues with others (Geiger & Swim ). Supplementing current outreach approaches with interventions that alter such beliefs about others may motivate model landowners to communicate with their neighbors.…”

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Motivating landowners to recruit neighbors for private land conservation

Niemiec

Willer

Ardoin

et al. 2019

Conservation Biology

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Encouraging motivated landowners to not only engage in conservation action on their own property but also to recruit others may enhance effectiveness of conservation on private lands. Landowners may only engage in such recruitment if they believe their neighbors care about the conservation issue, will positively respond to their conservation efforts, and are likely to take action for the conservation cause. We designed a series of microinterventions that can be added to community meetings to change these beliefs to encourage landowner engagement in recruitment of others. The microinterventions included neighbor discussion, public commitment making, collective goal setting, and increased observability of contributions to the conservation cause. In a field experiment, we tested whether adding microinterventions to traditional knowledge‐transfer outreach meetings changed those beliefs so as to encourage landowners in Hawaii to recruit their neighbors for private lands conservation. We delivered a traditional outreach meeting about managing the invasive little fire ant () to 5 communities and a traditional outreach approach with added microinterventions to 5 other communities. Analysis of pre‐ and post‐surveys of residents showed that compared with the traditional conservation outreach approach, the microinterventions altered a subset of beliefs that landowners had about others. These microinterventions motivated reputationally minded landowners to recruit and coordinate with other residents to control the invasive fire ant across property boundaries. Our results suggest integration of these microinterventions into existing outreach approaches will encourage some landowners to facilitate collective conservation action across property boundaries.

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“…). Interventions demonstrating that others are also concerned increase people's willingness to approach others about climate change (Geiger & Swim ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Motivating landowners to recruit neighbors for private land conservation

Niemiec

Willer

Ardoin

et al. 2019

Conservation Biology

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“…However, the majority of these people remain silent. There is, therefore, a socially constructed silence as reported by Geiger and Swim (2014) on the basis of pluralistic ignorance. This means that the perception about the opinion of the majority is that there is no interest in discussing weather conditions.…”

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Pluralistic ignorance: Conceptual framework, antecedents and consequences

Mendes¹,

López-Valeiras

Lunkes³

2017

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Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present, in an integrated manner, the knowledge acquired about pluralistic ignorance in the fields of social psychology, sociology and business.Particularly, to identify the factors that work as antecedents of pluralistic ignorance, as well as its consequences, in various research contexts. Design/methodology:This integrative study on pluralistic ignorance was conducted with the Proknow-C method, which allows the construction of knowledge through a structured process of search and identification of a bibliographic portfolio. The systemic analysis resulted in a model with seven social comparison errors that can be seen as antecedents of ignorance and a framework with its consequences, divided into three categories: people's attitude, people's behavior and organizational capabilities.-781-Intangible Capital -https://doi.org/10.3926/ic.1063 Research limitations/implications:As with every research review, identification and review of the literature depend on the authors' world view. One of the difficulties in researching pluralistic ignorance is that it is studied in different areas of knowledge and from different perspectives.Originality/value: The knowledge acquired throughout more than eight decades of research on pluralistic ignorance is fragmented into different perspectives. However, what was shown by the systemic analysis of the literature is that studies are more often geared toward psychosocial issues and it is still not very well known how the causes and consequences of pluralistic ignorance interact with the management processes in the organizational environment. This review presents a model for guiding the process of formation of pluralistic ignorance and a guiding framework for future research, as far as its consequences are concerned.

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Public Opinion Perceptions, Private Support, and Public Actions of US Adults Regarding Gun Safety Policy

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Key Points Question Is correcting misperceptions on gun safety public opinion associated with an increase in private support for and public actions on gun safety in the US? Findings In this 3-part survey study with a total of 1262 respondents, a nationally representative survey found that a majority of gun owners and non–gun owners support key gun safety policies, yet both groups significantly underestimate gun owners’ support for these policies. The 2 additional survey experiments, including one of university students and one with a representative sample of gun owners, found that corrective information about gun owners’ support for gun safety policies was associated with a significant increase in participants’ support for the policies both privately and publicly. Meaning These findings suggest that increasing awareness of the high levels of support for gun safety policies among gun owners may lead individuals to be more supportive of the policies both in private and in public.

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Climate of silence: Pluralistic ignorance as a barrier to climate change discussion

Cited by 231 publications

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Motivating landowners to recruit neighbors for private land conservation

Motivating landowners to recruit neighbors for private land conservation

Pluralistic ignorance: Conceptual framework, antecedents and consequences

Public Opinion Perceptions, Private Support, and Public Actions of US Adults Regarding Gun Safety Policy

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