The silence of the library: environment, situational norm, and social behavior.

By Henk Aarts, A. Dijksterhuis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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A Goal-Based Model of Product Evaluation and Choice (2012, background): “Ample evidence exists that activating goals increases the accessibility of means that satisfy those goals (Aarts and Dijksterhuis 2000, 2003; Aarts, Dijksterhuis, and Custers 2003; Aarts, Dijksterhuis, and de Vries 2001; Belk 1975; Ratneshwar et al. 1996; Ratneshwar and Shocker 1991).”
A Room with a Viewpoint: Using Social Norms to Motivate Environmental Conservation in Hotels (2008, background): “…what may be effective and normconsistent behavior at one’s fraternity party is certainly not going to be adaptive in other settings and situations, especially those with powerful and well-established norms, such as how to behave in a library during finals week (Aarts and Dijksterhuis 2003).”
The effect of primed goals on employee performance: Implications for human resource management (2011, background): “Aarts and Dijksterhuis (2003) investigated the effect of a photograph on activating situational norms.”
Egalitarian goals trigger stereotype inhibition: A proactive form of stereotype control☆ (2011, methodology): “In this regard, Experiment 3 replicates a point previously demonstrated by Aarts and Dijksterhuis (2003) and Moskowitz (2002).”
The Relevance and Viability of Subconscious Goals in the Workplace (2010, background): “Other studies involve norm activation, such as showing participants a picture of a library and subsequently measuring their response time to such library-relevant words as “quiet” (Aarts & Dijksterhuis, 2003).”
Why dieters fail : Testing the goal conflict model of eating (2017, positive): “Following previous work of this kind, it was assumed that the time taken to recognize the behavioral concepts in this task would reflect relative accessibility of representations of eating control behavior (e.g., Aarts & Dijksterhuis, 2000, 2003; Neely, 1991).”
The Unconscious Consumer: Effects of Environment on Consumer Behavior (2005, background): “In research by Aarts and Dijksterhuis (2003) on automatic normative behavior, participants were asked to look at a visual image of a certain environment such as a library or an expensive restaurant.”
The role of automaticity in determining the inclination to forgive close others (2007, background): “Similar to other constructs that are mentally represented and that can be automatically activated by situational cues (e.g., Aarts & Dijksterhuis, 2003; Bargh, 1990), thinking of, seeing, or interacting with a close other (rather than a nonclose other) can automatically activate forgiveness.”
nUtritioUs or deliCioUs? the eFFeCt oF desCriPtive norm inFormation on Food ChoiCe (2010, neutral): “increases ( Aarts, & Dijksterhuis, 2003; Cialdini, Demaine, Sagarin, Barrett, Rhoads, & Winter,”
(When) are religious people nicer? Religious salience and the “Sunday Effect” on pro-social behavior (2008, background): “Environmental cues can have non-conscious effects on behavior in social (Kay, Wheeler, Bargh, & Ross, 2004) as well as private (Aarts & Dijksterhuis, 2003) domains.”
Organizational Factors and Instructional Decision-Making: A Cognitive Perspective (2011, background): “As a result, when shown a picture of a library, people will automatically speak softly and act more discreetly during experimental tasks (Aarts & Dijksterhuis, 2003).”
Peering into the “Magnum Mysterium” of Culture (2009, background): “…a plethora of social cognitive theory (e.g., Hardin & Higgins, 1996; Hogg & Abrams, 1993; Latané, 1996) and laboratory and field evidence (e.g., Aarts & Dijksterhuis, 2003; Lowery, Hardin, & Sinclair, 2001; Sechrist & Stangor, 2001) support the notion that people’s cognitive and behavioral…”
Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, positive): “Behavioral studies demonstrate that an environment such as a library or restaurant may raise environment-specific social norms (e.g., being quiet, using table manners; Joly et al., 2008; Aarts and Dijksterhuis, 2003).”