Suggests that people want to see themselves as holding a majority opinion and will therefore remain silent if they perceive that they hold a minority opinion. This tends to make the minority opinion appear to be less prevalent than it is. Name the theory.

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Lilia Murphy

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20 March, 13:43

Suggests that people want to see themselves as holding a majority opinion and will therefore remain silent if they perceive that they hold a minority opinion. This tends to make the minority opinion appear to be less prevalent than it is. Name the theory.

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Cherokee · Answer 1

Silence / Spiral of science theory

Explanation:

In sociology, the Spiral of science theory refers to the fact that when a minority has an opinion that is different from the one that the rest of the group have (The majority of the group), they are likely to not state the theory out loud because they are afraid that they might be isolated by saying their opinion out loud, therefore, they choose to remain silent. And this tends to make the minority opinion to appear to be less prevalent than it actually is.

Therefore, the theory that suggests that people want to see themselves as holding a majority opinion and will therefore remain silent if they perceive that they hold a minority opinion. This tends to make the minority opinion appear to be less prevalent than it is is the Spiral of science theory.