Miller, D. T., & Prentice, D. A. (2016). Annual Review of Psychology, 67, 339–361. DOI-10.1146/annurev-psych-010814-015013
Not read. What follows is taken from the abstract in OpenAlex’s record and has not been checked against the paper.
Key takeaways
From the abstract only.
- Scope. A review of norm-based interventions: giving people information about the behaviour and attitudes of their peers, to reduce behaviour harmful to individuals (high alcohol consumption) or to the collective (high energy consumption).
- Focus. “Special attention to interventions designed to decrease college students’ drinking and increase environment-friendly behaviors.”
- Claim as stated. It identifies “the conditions under which norm information has the highest likelihood of changing the targeted behavior” and discusses why.
Why this is here
CLAIM-415 holds that a person can be organized by a judgement they attribute to a collective that does not hold it. Its present support is Prentice and Miller’s study of pluralistic ignorance (LIT-1370). This review, by the same authors twenty years on, should say whether the interventions that correct such a misperception work, and under which conditions they do not, which bears on how durable the attributed judgement is.