Abstract
Interactions within groups of people lead to many forms of aberrant social psychology. One is pluralistic ignorance (PI), in which the majority of people in a group express opinions that differ from their real beliefs. PI occurs for various reasons: one is the drive to belong to a group. To understand how PI emerges, this study presents an agent-based model that represents PI as the outcome of the trade-off between agents’ group conformity and cognitive dissonance (psychological discomfort). We show that the trade-off can lead to various outcomes, depending on agents’ choice, or bias towards one tendency or the other.
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Seeme, F., Green, D., & Kopp, C. (2019). Pluralistic Ignorance: A Trade-Off Between Group-Conformity and Cognitive Dissonance. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11954 LNCS, pp. 695–706). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36711-4_58
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