People are conditional rule followers

PTM (Pieter) Desmet; CW (Christoph) Engel

doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021.102384

People are conditional rule followers

PTM (Pieter) Desmet, CW (Christoph) Engel

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Abstract

Experimental participants are more likely to follow an arbitrary rule the more others in their
reference group do so as well. The effect is most pronounced for individuals who follow few rules
when not knowing others’ behavior. Unlike what is observed for conditional cooperation,
learning that only few others follow a rule does not reduce rule following.

Original language	English
Article number	102384
Pages (from-to)	1-6
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Economic Psychology
Volume	85
Issue number	August 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021.102384
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2021

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Helpful comments by the editor, an anonymous referee, Claudia Cerrone and Alexander Schneeberger on an earlier version are gratefully acknowledged. The experiment has been funded from the regular budget of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany. All data, analyses, and instructions are available on https://osf.io/d5an9/ or DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/D5AN9.

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