Writing in the Daily Telegraph James Morrow referred to something called a preference cascade which he said was a term used by political scientists. This term (new to me) set my wordsmith’s whiskers tingling so I did a bit of digging. It appears that preference cascade was coined by Turkish economist Timur Kuran, It means that average people behave the way they think they ought to, even though that behaviour might not reflect their own personal feelings.
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