Commentary on Melson et al. (2011): pluralistic ignorance is probably real but important questions remain about its relation to drinking and role in intervention.

Title: Commentary on Melson et al. (2011): pluralistic ignorance is probably real but important questions remain about its relation to drinking and role in intervention.
Creator: Kypri, Kypros; MacLennan, Brett
Relation: Addiction Vol. 106, p. 1085-1086
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03457.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: Many studies, mostly involving US college students, ostensibly show that young people tend to believe that more of their peers engage in heavy episodic drinking, illicit drug use and risky sex than actually do so. College students are also found to misperceive injunctive norms, thinking that their peers are more permissive of certain risk behaviours than they really are. These errors of judgement have been framed in terms of pluralistic ignorance, described as a phenomenon in which ‘a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but assume (incorrectly) that most others accept it’.
Subject: United States; college students; episodic drinking; drug use; behavioural norms; pluralistic ignorance
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/934196
Identifier: uon:11804
Identifier: ISSN:0965-2140
Rights: The definitive version is available at www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Language: eng
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