Your psychology professor finishes up her lecture and asks if anyone has any questions. no one raises a hand. you were hopelessly confused by the lecture, but assume everyone else must have understood it since no one asked anything. later, you find out that your friends in the class were also confused but each thought he or she was the only one. social psychologists would call this confusion a consequence of

Social psychologists would call this confusion a cosequence of pluralistic ignorance

Explanation:

Pluralistic ignorance is a situation in which most members of a group privately reject a rule, but go along with it since they incorrectly assume that most others accept it. This is also described as "no one believes, but everyone thinks that everyone believes". In a nutshell, pluralistic ignorance is a bias about a social group, supported by the members of that social group.

the historians cited in the article all agree with one another about the cause of the civil war. despite coming from different backgrounds and cultures, the historians agree that slavery was the root cause of the civil war. the fact that all these historiansgenerally agree with one another makes their shared viewpoints more reliable and valid, especially because the historians have different backgrounds and all work for the well-respected institutions of howard university, clemson university, and the university of colorado.