The Spreading of Disorder

By K. Keizer, Siegwart Lindenberg, L. Steg. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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NORMS MAKE PREFERENCES SOCIAL: Norms Make Preferences Social (2015, background): “…unsorted groups were not themselves gross violators of the rule could be viewed as an instance of the “broken windows” effect (in which individuals who observe violations of a social norm are more likely to violate the same norm, see Wilson and Kelling, 1982; Keizer, Lindenberg, and Steg, 2008).”
Let’s be honest: A review of experimental evidence of honesty and truth-telling (2014, background): “Keizer, Lindenberg, and Steg (2008) averred that individuals are more likely to steal the contents if they observe that others have violated similar social norms, and indeed found a significant difference between stealing envelopes clearly containing money from postboxes in the baseline (13%),…”
Naturally Green: Harnessing Stone Age Psychological Biases to Foster Environmental Behavior (2014, background): “Research shows that messages to discourage bad environmental practices can have exactly the opposite effect when there are contextual cues that most people do not comply (Keizer et al., 2008; Keizer & Schultz, 2012).”
Persuasive Normative Messages: The Influence of Injunctive and Personal Norms on Using Free Plastic Bags (2013, background): “However, there is some evidence indicating that focusing on descriptive norms is ineffective in promoting pro-environmental behaviors in situations characterized by high levels of undesirable conduct [26,31]; and, in some instances can even result in the inhibition of the influence of salient injunc”
Low-income housing development and crime (2011, background): “Additionally, results from studies using controlled experiments suggest that signs of petty criminal behavior can instigate more of such behavior, leading to the spread of disorder within communities (Keizer et al. 2008).”
How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution (2020, methodology): “…al., 2015; for a review, see Abrahamse & Steg, 2013), adopting sustainable technologies such as solar panels (Bollinger & Gillingham, 2012) and electric vehicles (Barth et al., 2016), reducing littering (Cialdini et al., 1990; Keizer et al., 2008) and promoting waste sorting (Fornara et al., 2011).”
Laws and Norms (2012, neutral): “44For instance, Keizer et al. (2008) posted flyers (advertisements) on 77 bicycles parked along a wall and observed that the fraction of owners tossing them on the ground doubled (from one third to two thirds) after graffi ti had been painted on the wall.”
Mechanism Experiments and Policy Evaluations (2011, methodology): “To cite one example, in 2002, the U.S. Department of Education founded the Institute of Education Sciences with a primary focus on running experiments; its annual budget is now about $700 million (U.S. Department of Education, 2010).”
Microfoundations for Strategy: A Goal-Framing Perspective on the Drivers of Value Creation (2013, background): “A cogent explanation for such strong effects of cues is that they affect the relative 7 weight of activated overarching goals (see Keizer, Lindenberg, and Steg 2008, Lindenberg 2012a), as specified in goal-framing theory (Lindenberg 2008, Lindenberg & Steg 2007).”
Values, Norms, and Intrinsic Motivation to Act Proenvironmentally (2016, background): “For example, people were more likely to litter in a littered environment (70, 71), when buildings were covered with graffiti (71, 72), or when they heard others light fireworks when it was illegal (72).”