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Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations

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2015
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Diekmann, A., Przepiorka, W., & Rauhut, H. (2015). Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations. Rationality and Society, 27(3), 309–333. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463115593109

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Norm violations can be contagious. Previous research analyzed two mechanisms of why knowledge about others’ norm violations triggers its spread: (1) Actors lower their subjective beliefs about the probability or severity of punishment, or (2) they condition their compliance on others’ compliance. While earlier field studies could hardly disentangle both effects, we use a laboratory experiment which eliminates any punishment threat. Subjects (n = 466) can throw a die and are paid according to their reported number. Our design rules out

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  • Diekmann, Andreas
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  • Przepiorka, Wojtek
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  • Rauhut, Heiko
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27

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3

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309

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333

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English

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1043-4631

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251 since deposited on 2014-04-29
Acq. date: 2025-11-13

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Diekmann, A., Przepiorka, W., & Rauhut, H. (2015). Lifting the veil of ignorance: An experiment on the contagiousness of norm violations. Rationality and Society, 27(3), 309–333. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043463115593109

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