Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
![Noelle-Neumann and Otto Schlecht at the [[Ludwig Erhard Foundation]] in 1991](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Hotel_K%C3%B6nigshof_Bonn_Elisabeth_Noelle-Neumann%2C_Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung.jpg)
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (19 December 1916 – 25 March 2010) was a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in ''The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin''. The model is an explanation of how perceived public opinion can influence individual opinions or actions.
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