{"id":50802,"date":"2012-09-06T11:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=50802"},"modified":"2013-02-11T03:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:42:03","slug":"college-fun-and-pluralistic-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/09\/06\/college-fun-and-pluralistic-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"College, Fun, and Pluralistic Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week on PostSecret<\/a> I stumbled across the following confession:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The idea that certain beliefs about college may not be true reminded me of the concept of pluralistic ignorance. \u00a0The phrase refers to a phenomenon in which a large proportion of a population misunderstands reality.<\/p>\n

For example, while many college students think that lots of people hook up a lot, 80% of college students hook up less than once a semester, on average<\/a>. \u00a0About 40% of those hook ups involve intercourse, while a strong third just involve getting horizontal and making out. \u00a0Students, for what it’s worth, also tend to\u00a0consistently\u00a0overestimate how much drugs and alcohol other students are consuming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, while “everyone thinks” that “everyone has fun during their freshman year.” \u00a0In fact, the person who wrote this confession may be a lot less alone than s\/he thinks, even if most people think that everyone does, in fact, have fun.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week on PostSecret I stumbled across the following confession:\u00a0 The idea that certain beliefs about college may not be true reminded me of the concept of pluralistic ignorance. \u00a0The phrase refers to a phenomenon in which a large proportion of a population misunderstands reality. For example, while many college students think that lots of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,10514,37],"class_list":["post-50802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-leisure","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50802"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50805,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50802\/revisions\/50805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}