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Everyone follows a rule that no one actually likes.
A 1993 study found that students privately disliked campus drinking but believed peers enjoyed it.
The study 'Pluralistic Ignorance and Alcohol Use on Campus: Some Consequences of Self-Perception Processes' was published by Prentice and Miller in 1993, not 1991.
Most of your peers may be pretending just like you.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Prentice and Miller, 1993
- What the check found
- The study by Prentice and Miller exists and the substance of the claim is accurate, but the date is incorrectly cited as 1991 instead of 1993.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
Related
One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.