Citation

Baldwin TK. Int. J. Mass Emerg. Disasters 1993; 11(3): 351-363.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, International Sociological Association, International Research Committee on Disasters)

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Abstract

The events and developments leading up to December 3, 1990, created a climate conducive to the study of public opinion about Browning's prediction of an earthquake. This topic provides an avenue through which to examine pluralistic ignorance, or the shared, erroneous cognitive believes of an aggregate about the ideas, beliefs, and actions of others. This study focuses on the degree to which members of the public accurately perceived the beliefs of others regarding the Browning prediction. This study explores to what degree pluralistic ignorance existed among residents of the Southeast Missouri area on this topic and seeks to identify certain conditions of pluralistic ignorance which other studies of this phenomenon have described.