Your Brain On Climate
MICRO: The Conservative Lag
Published: 27 February 2025 at 00:00 Europe/London
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Why is social change so hard - particularly right now? Part of the reason likes in pluralistic ignorance - the social phenomena that helps to explains everything from imposter syndrome to slow progress on climate change.
In this micro episode, we explore a nugget of insight from Professor Deborah Prentice - currently vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University and at the time of our chat back in 2021, provost of Princeton. What is pluralistic ignorance, and how does it lead to a 'conservative lag' in society?
For the full chat, check out episode 6 here. https://www.yourbrainonclimate.com/1817605/episodes/9347344-pluralistic-ignorance-with-deborah-prentice
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