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Self-censorship and the 'spiral of silence': Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues.

I'm a political scientist , and I found that Americans were far less likely to publicly voice their opinions than even during the height of the McCarthy-era Red Scare.

In the 1970s, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, a distinguished German political scientist, coined the term the “spiral of silence” to describe how self-censorship arises and what its consequences can be.