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Deborah A. Prentice
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 23
Citations - 1887
Deborah A. Prentice is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pluralistic ignorance & Social relation. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 23 publications receiving 1758 citations.
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Asymmetries in Attachments to Groups and to their Members: Distinguishing between Common-Identity and Common-Bond Groups
TL;DR: The authors found that individuals in common-identity groups were more attached to their group than to its members, whereas individuals in the common-bond groups were as attached to the members as to the group (or more so).
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Pluralistic Ignorance and the Perpetuation of Social Norms by Unwitting Actors
TL;DR: The concept of pluralistic ignorance as mentioned in this paper describes the case in which virtually every member of a group or society privately rejects a belief, opinion, or practice, yet believes that virtually every other member privately accepts it.
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Exposing Pluralistic Ignorance to Reduce Alcohol Use Among College Students1
TL;DR: This article examined the effects of educating students about pluralistic ignorance on their drinking behavior and found that the peer-oriented discussion reduced the prescriptive strength of the drinking norm, while individual-oriented discussions focused on decision making in a drinking situation.
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What readers bring to the processing of fictional texts
TL;DR: This article found that students read fictional stories that contained weak and unsupported assertions and that were set either at their own school or at another school, but not the home-school story, had a significant impact on students' beliefs.
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Minimal conditions for the creation of a unit relationship: the social bond between birthdaymates
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors hypothesize that sharing a birthday is sufficient to create a unit relationship and demonstrate that individuals cooperated more in a prisoners dilemma game when their (fictitious) opponent shared their birthday.