What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging

Sandra J. Geiger; Jana K. Köhler; Zenith N.C. Delabrida; Karla A. Garduño-Realivazquez; Christian A.P. Haugestad; Hirotaka Imada; Aishwarya Iyer; Carya Maharja; Daniel C. Mann; Michalina Marczak; Olivia Melville; Sari R.R. Nijssen; Nattavudh Powdthavee; Radisti A. Praptiwi; Gargi Ranade; Claudio D. Rosa; Valeria Vitale; Małgorzata Winkowska; Lei Zhang; Mathew P. White

doi:10.1177/09567976251335585

What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging

Sandra J. Geiger
, Jana K. Köhler
, Zenith N.C. Delabrida
, Karla A. Garduño-Realivazquez
, Christian A.P. Haugestad
, Hirotaka Imada
, Aishwarya Iyer
, Carya Maharja
, Daniel C. Mann
, Michalina Marczak
, Olivia Melville
, Sari R.R. Nijssen
, Nattavudh Powdthavee
, Radisti A. Praptiwi
, Gargi Ranade
, Claudio D. Rosa
, Valeria Vitale
, Małgorzata Winkowska
, Lei Zhang
, Mathew P. White

Department of Psychology

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	421-442
Number of pages	22
Journal	Psychological Science
Volume	36
Issue number	6
Early online date	22 May 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251335585
Publication status	Published - Jun 2025

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Keywords

climate change
cross-country generalizability
cultural tightness-looseness
pluralistic ignorance
social norm

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Geiger, S. J., Köhler, J. K., Delabrida, Z. N. C., Garduño-Realivazquez, K. A., Haugestad, C. A. P., Imada, H., Iyer, A., Maharja, C., Mann, D. C., Marczak, M., Melville, O., Nijssen, S. R. R., Powdthavee, N., Praptiwi, R. A., Ranade, G., Rosa, C. D., Vitale, V., Winkowska, M., Zhang, L., & White, M. P. (2025). What We Think Others Think and Do About Climate Change: A Multicountry Test of Pluralistic Ignorance and Public-Consensus Messaging. Psychological Science, 36(6), 421-442. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251335585

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