Climate of silence: Pluralistic ignorance as a barrier to climate change discussion

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How Hope and Doubt Affect Climate Change Mobilization (2019, background): “, 2018), can also help to reduce pluralistic ignorance (Geiger and Swim, 2016).”
The Greta Thunberg Effect: Familiarity with Greta Thunberg predicts intentions to engage in climate activism in the United States (2021, background): “climate change (Geiger & Swim, 2016; Goldberg et al., 2020), knowledge about the scientific consensus on climate change (van der Linden et al., 2015, van der Linden et al., 2019), and policy endorsement by ingroup partisans (Fielding et al., 2020), can each raise individuals’ support for…”
Beliefs about Climate Beliefs: The Importance of Second-Order Opinions for Climate Politics (2017, background): “Thus, Geiger and Swim (2016) find that comfort in discussing climate change is a function of beliefs about the distribution of climate opinions; they find that individuals who underestimate the distribution of beliefs self-silence for fear of social sanctions.”
How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution (2020, background): “Many Americans have the inaccurate perception that their fellow Americans do not care much about taking action on climate change (Geiger & Swim, 2016).”