The sense of social influence: pluralistic ignorance in climate change: Social factors play key roles in human behavior. Individuals tend to underestimate how much others worry about climate change. This may inhibit them from taking collective climate action

Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl; Vincent F Hendricks

doi:10.15252/embr.201847185

The sense of social influence: pluralistic ignorance in climate change: Social factors play key roles in human behavior. Individuals tend to underestimate how much others worry about climate change. This may inhibit them from taking collective climate action

EMBO Rep. 2018 Nov;19(11):e47185. doi: 10.15252/embr.201847185. Epub 2018 Oct 22.

Authors

Esther Michelsen Kjeldahl¹, Vincent F Hendricks¹

Affiliation

¹ Center for Information and Bubble Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Abstract

How pluralistic ignorance can inhibit us from taking collective climate action and may affect similar problems such as public resistance to vaccination programs.

MeSH terms

Carbon
Climate Change*
Communications Media
Cultural Diversity*
Greenhouse Effect / prevention & control*
Greenhouse Gases
Humans
Social Behavior*

Substances

Greenhouse Gases
Carbon