Exhibit 1213 ยท Journal article (four studies)
Pluralistic ignorance and alcohol use on campus: some consequences of misperceiving the social norm
Students believed that they were more uncomfortable with campus alcohol practices than was the average student.
Four studies of college students find that students believe they are less comfortable with campus drinking than the average student. Men shifted toward the norm they wrongly perceived over a semester; women did not. Perceived deviance correlated with campus alienation although it was illusory.
- Source
- Deborah A. Prentice and Dale T. Miller, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 64(2): 243-256
- Date
- 1993
- Quoted from
- Abstract (PubMed ID 8433272; Princeton research portal copy)
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.64.2.243
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Abstract read on the Princeton research portal; full text not accessible. The 1998 follow-up (Schroeder and Prentice, J. Applied Social Psychology 28: 2150-2180, open Stanford SPARQ copy) was read for the summary of the 1993 findings and a norm-education intervention.