“…In general, exploration of social norming interventions is important because false beliefs that deviate from a social consensus are not only potential drivers of misinformed and thus potentially harmful behaviours (e.g., Bauman & Geher, 2002;Botvin, Botvin, Baker, Dusenbury, & Goldberg, 1992), but they can also affect public discourse. Specifically, overestimation of the social acceptance of one's view (i.e., a false-consensus effect; Marks & Miller, 1987) can be detrimental if the view is ill-informed: For example, a person assuming that many others share the misconception that anthropogenic climate change is a hoax will be motivated to promote their false view and actively oppose mitigative action (e.g., Santos, Levin, & Vasconcelos, 2021). On the flipside, if a vocal minority keeps a false belief in the public spotlight, this can lead people who hold a factual majority belief to underestimate the social acceptance of their view and falsely assume they are in the minority (i.e., a false-uniqueness effect; Bosveld, Koomen, van der Pligt, Plaisier, 1995).…”