A proposition is noncontingent, if it is necessarily true or it is necessarily false. In an
epistemic context,'a proposition is noncontingent'means that you know whether the …

Pluralistic ignorance is a socio-psychological phenomenon that involves a systematic
discrepancy between people's private beliefs and public behavior in certain social contexts …

Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) at the University of Copenhagen, based in
no small part on the research agenda and initial results originally put forth in the first edition …

It has become a truism that we live in so‐called information societies where new information
technologies have made information abundant. At the same time, information science has …

The information society is upon us and with it comes the constant barrage of information
accessible wherever, whenever. This book explores the role of knowledge (or lack thereof) …

Abstract “Pluralistic ignorance” is a phenomenon mainly studied in social psychology.
Viewed as an epistemic phenomenon, one way to define it is as a situation where “no one …

It is strange, although not completely surprising, that epistemologists-unlike satirists,
novelists, moralists, and essayists-have devoted so little thinking to the phenomenon of …

A group is in a state of pluralistic ignorance (PI) if, roughly speaking, every member of the
group thinks that his or her belief or desire is different from the beliefs or desires of the other …

Millions of scientific articles are published each year, making it difficult to stay abreast of
advances within even the smallest subdisciplines. Traditional approaches to the study of …

This paper takes up the question of how videographic public announcements (VPAs)---ie
videos that a wide swath of the public sees and knows that everyone else can see too …