People with relatively extreme opinions may be more willing to publicly share their views than those with more moderate views, according to a new study.
The key is that the extremists have to believe that more people share their views than actually do, the research found.
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“When people with extreme views have this false sense that they are in the majority, they are more willing to express themselves,” said Kimberly Rios Morrison, co-author of the study and assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University.
False sense? I know I would be in the majority...if everyone would just listen to me.
But we all took the Political Compass at one point, didn't we?
Posted by: odograph | October 23, 2009 at 12:46 PM
But we all took the Political Compass at one point, didn't we?
If i rememeber right I think we found that everyone but me and gmoke were hard core fascists.
Posted by: joshua corning | October 24, 2009 at 04:38 PM
Oh yeah, "everyone but me and gmoke were hard core fascists" will remind us of your moderation.
Posted by: odograph | October 26, 2009 at 03:05 AM
Oh yeah, "everyone but me and gmoke were hard core fascists" will remind us of your moderation.
Yes Odo now that you have ruined the joke i can state that I am well aware that as a libertarian i am in the minority.
Another things that people considered main stream and moderate include in there time and place; genocide, slavery, women can't vote, Japanese internment, colonialism...the list goes on.
Posted by: joshua corning | October 26, 2009 at 02:27 PM
Was that another joke?
You named things that are the exception in human civilization and ascribed them to the mainstream?
(Well, for anyone to vote is a recent innovation, but the rest have been low-frequency occurrences as old as man.)
Posted by: odograph | October 26, 2009 at 03:16 PM