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2018
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Teraji, Shinji (2018): The cognitive basis of institutions. A synthesis of behavioral and institutional economics. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier (Perspectives in behavioral economics and the economics of behavior)
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(2018) : Society and Knowledge In: Teraji, Shinji: The cognitive basis of institutions: A synthesis of behavioral and institutional economics: Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier (Perspectives in behavioral economics and the economics of behavior), S. 263-308
Abstract: This chapter deals with social order. Hayek’s thought largely rests on the concept of spontaneous order. Spontaneous orders in human affairs are patterns that arise as the unintended consequences of individual actions. The dissemination of knowledge is crucial in society. People live in a world of expectations about interactions with others’ actions. Rules are behavioral patterns that individuals expect each other to follow. Relying on rules is a device we have learned to use, because our reason is insufficient to master the detail of complex reality. If rules are recognized as recurrent patterns of behavior, individuals act according to rules of conduct. The diffusion of shared behavioral patterns is necessary to obtain social order. Shared rules facilitate decision-making in complex situations by limiting the range of circumstances to which individuals have to pay attention.
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(2018): The interplay of rules, asymmetries in language fluency, and team dynamics in culturally diverse teams. In: Cross Cultural & Strategic Management 25 (1), S. 157-182. DOI: 10.1108/CCSM-08-2016-0157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/CCSM-08-2016-0157 Abstract: Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how newly formed culturally diverse project teams develop and implement rules, and how these processes may be affected by language-fluency asymmetries. Design/methodology/approach: Using a case-study research design, the authors investigated three multicultural project teams within a management integration program in a multinational company in France. Their complete data set includes 37.5 hours of observations and 49 hours of semi-structured interviews. Findings: Findings revealed that subgroups formed on the basis of language-fluency and this affected the development and implementation of rules. While rule-setting mechanisms emerged across teams, they varied in form. On the one hand, tightly structured rules emerged and rules were rigidly applied when there were greater language inequalities. In contrast, implicit behavior controls guided interactions when language-fluency subgroupings were less salient. The findings also revealed that the alignment of other individual attributes with language fluency reinforced subgroup divisions, further impacting the rule development and implementation processes. Practical implications: Understanding rule development and implementation in culturally diverse teams and how these processes are impacted by language disparities enables managers to help members develop more successful behavioral patterns by keeping language-fluency (and other) attributes in mind. Originality/value: The study extends and complements previous team research by providing in-depth insights into the process of rule development and implementation. It demonstrates the impact of language-fluency asymmetries and subgroup dynamics on these processes. The authors propose a model to capture the processes by which culturally diverse teams create rules, and how the rule-setting mechanisms might be moderated by faultlines such as language-based disparities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all r ights re served) zitiert von 1
2017
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(2017): 66 Gebote systemischen Denkens und Handelns in Management und Beratung. 1. Auflage. Heidelberg, Neckar: Carl-Auer Verlag GmbH (Management)
Abstract: In Form von 66 Geboten werden kurze, kompakte Anleitungen und Anregungen zum systemischen Denken und Handeln in Management und Beratung gegeben. Die Gebote sind als Irritationen konzipiert. Sie sollen dazu anregen, den komplexen, unübersichtlichen Alltag der Beratung und des Managements ein wenig "anders" zu sehen. Die Gebote zeigen auf, was es heißt, "in Systemen zu denken", wie Führung und Management zu verstehen sind und wie man unter Beobachtung systemischer Interventionsprinzipien Veränderungen initiieren kann. Zehn Gebote betreffen jeweils eins der sechs Themenfelde "Erkenntnis", "soziale Systeme", "Organisation", "Führung", "Interventionstheorie", "Interventionsprinzipien". Die verbleibenden sechs Gebote verkörpern grundlegende systemische Ideen und Prinzipien. Jedes Gebot ist mit einer passenden Illustration versehen. - Inhalt: (1) Zehn Gebote zur systemischen Erkenntnismethode. (2) Zehn Gebote zum Denken in sozialen Systemen. (3) Zehn Thesen zur Organisation. (4) Zehn Thesen zu Management und Führung. (5) Zehn Thesen zur Interventionstheorie. (6) Zehn Thesen zu nützlichen Interventionsstrategien und -prinzipien. (7) Grundlegende systemische Ideen und Prinzipien. zitiert von 5
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Hermann, Henry R. (2017): Dominance and aggression in humans and other animals. The great game of life. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press/Elsevier
Abstract: Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life examines human nature and the influence of evolution, genetics, chemistry, nurture, and the sociopolitical environment as a way of understanding how and why humans behave in aggressive and dominant ways.ïŽ The book walks us through aggression in other social species, compares and contrasts human behavior to other animals, and then explores specific human behaviors like bullying, abuse, territoriality murder, and war.ïŽ The book examines both individual and group aggression in different environments including work, school, and the home.ïŽ It explores common stressors triggering aggressive behaviors, and how individual personalities can be vulnerable to, or resistant to, these stressors.ïŽ The book closes with an exploration of the cumulative impact of human aggression and dominance on the natural world
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(2017) : Alternate Human Behavior In: Hermann, Henry R.: Dominance and aggression in humans and other animals: The great game of life: London, United Kingdom: Academic Press/Elsevier, S. 139-157
Abstract: Dominance interactions are found in all walks of life and at all levels of human existence. They may be powerful expressions that influence society in a positive or negative fashion (e.g., a political leader who genuinely cares about his or her constituents, versus a political psychopath who does as he or she pleases, sometimes destroying the lives of those who get in the way). On the other hand, they may be less-significant expressions; for example, simply winning at a competitive sport or game of cards. People who have an antisocial personality typically express their form of dominance in a more aggressive, sometimes violent fashion. The development of a sedentary lifestyle in humans led to the formation of larger groups and increased interrelationships, including individuals who were extra-familial. Most urban and suburban human societies continue in this fashion, while aboriginal societies either live in multifamily groups or have retained the earlier family-oriented groupings. Our predecessors learned that living in a large group was a more effective way of meeting material and spiritual needs, and it functioned as a better system of defense against threats. Unfortunately, opposing groups became larger as well, and their differences often led to altercations and mass killings. Existing in groups comes with certain responsibilities. Rules must be made (generally based on religious, moral, and political beliefs), and members of such a group are expected to become familiar with and practice behaviors that depict a social “norm.” While social norms vary, depending on the society to which an individual belongs, some members of a society are willing to abide by social rules while others are not. Those who do abide by the rules are considered part of the “norm,” while those who do not are said to express alternate behavior. Thus, human society is composed of a tremendous variety of individuals at both extremes and others who fit somewhere in between. They occupy different behavioral categories and different rungs within the linear and despotic dominance hierarchies that exist. It is often dominant individuals who influence the making of societal rules, and it is often dominant individuals who break them. In choosing rule-making leaders, we desire individuals who are morally selfless and possibly sometimes even altruistic. While this may happen on occasion, many individuals who make the rules have more materialistic or sadistic reasons for domination. Such individuals are accustomed to using deceit to influence their followers, and their deceitful mannerisms are often difficult to recognize. In rule making, dominant individuals (especially those who have an antisocial personality) often make rules that are not self-demanding and are often directly beneficial for the rule maker. Thus, it is a selfish attitude. In rule breaking, dominant individuals generally demonstrate an even more selfish approach as well. This chapter is about those people, people with personalities who desire to dominate others by aberrant means and do not care about what the consequences of their behavior are to others. In the minds of most of society, they are the social outcasts, bullies, burglars, corporate and identity thieves, abusers, murderers, and rapists that every society must contend with. Many people who demonstrate behaviors other than the “norm” do not precisely fit descriptions of antisocial personalities, and there are no definite lines of demarcation separating one group from another. Rather, there is a gradation of personalities from one end of the scale to the other, a bell curve of personalities, if you will. While many people are perfectly comfortable in following societal rules, some people choose to isolate themselves from society by not becoming involved, separating themselves from other individuals and societal functions. They practice what has been described as an asocial way of life. Types of sociopaths, mental illness, personality disorders, psychopathic behavior, antisocial personality disorders, love, respect, falling out of love, stalking, tolerance, adultery, hatred, hate groups, and other forms of alternate behavior complete the chapter.
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(2017): Employee conscientiousness, agreeableness, and supervisor justice rule compliance. A three-study investigation. In: The Journal of applied psychology 102 (11), S. 1564-1589. DOI: 10.1037/apl0000248
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/apl0000248 Abstract: Researchers have paid limited attention to what makes organizational authority figures decide to treat their employees either justly or unjustly. Drawing from the actor-focused model of justice, as well as the stereotype content model, we argue that employee conscientiousness and agreeableness can impact the extent to which supervisors adhere to normative rules for distributive, procedural, informational, and interpersonal justice, as a result of supervisors' evaluations of their employees' effort and their liking of the employees. Supervisory compliance with justice rules may, in turn, impact the extent to which employees judge themselves to be treated either justly or unjustly. We tested these possibilities in 3 studies. In Study 1, we utilized a meta-analysis to demonstrate positive relationships between employees' conscientiousness, agreeableness, and their justice perceptions. In Study 2, we conducted 3 experiments to test the causal relationship between employee personality and supervisor intentions to comply with justice rules. In Study 3, we conducted an employee-supervisor dyadic field survey to examine the entire mediation model. Results are discussed in terms of the potential roles that both employees and supervisors may play in shaping employees' justice perceptions. (PsycINFO Database Record zitiert von 1
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(2017): Self-Interest and the Design of Rules. In: Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) 28 (4), S. 457-480. DOI: 10.1007/s12110-017-9298-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-017-9298-7 Abstract: Rules regulating social behavior raise challenging questions about cultural evolution in part because they frequently confer group-level benefits. Current multilevel selection theories contend that between-group processes interact with within-group processes to produce norms and institutions, but within-group processes have remained underspecified, leading to a recent emphasis on cultural group selection as the primary driver of cultural design. Here we present the self-interested enforcement (SIE) hypothesis, which proposes that the design of rules importantly reflects the relative enforcement capacities of competing parties. We show that, in addition to explaining patterns in cultural change and stability, SIE can account for the emergence of much group-functional culture. We outline how this process can stifle or accelerate cultural group selection, depending on various social conditions. Self-interested enforcement has important bearings on the emergence, stability, and change of rules. zitiert von 5
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(2017): Why children follow rules: Legal socialization and the development of legitimacy.. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190644147.001.0001 Abstract: Legal scholars and social scientists studying the law recognize that a central issue in law is understanding why adults obey the law. Evidence suggests that law-related attitudes and values are central to motivating adult law-related behavior, and hence that it is important to understand how they develop during the process of legal socialization. Although this is true, legal scholarship has widely ignored the process of childhood and adolescent socialization. The lack of research on legal socialization is ironic in that by the time people become adults, their law-related attitudes and values are already well formed and they have often had formative personal experiences with legal authorities. This important development begins during childhood and adolescence as part of the overall process of socialization. Our goal in this volume is to encourage scholars to pay greater attention to the issue of legal socialization. We do this by identifying the fundamental processes assoc iated wi th such socialization. These are (1) the internalization of values about how legal authorities are supposed to act toward citizens and how people are supposed to behave toward authorities in their role as citizens; (2) the formation of attitudes about the tangible representations of the law, including courts, laws, police, judges, and other legal authorities; and (3) the development of the cognitive and biological capacity to reason and think about the appropriate role for the law as a social institution in society. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 9
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(2017): Ethical leadership and pro-social rule breaking. A dual process model. In: Acta Psychologica Sinica 49 (1). DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2017.00106
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3724/SP.J.1041.2017.00106 Abstract: Pro-social rule breaking (PSRB), as one form of constructive deviance, is receiving increasing attention from researchers, yet surprisingly our knowledge of the antecedents of PSRB is fairly limited. Although the effects of personal traits on PSRB are well discussed in the literature, we know little about how contextual factors in the work environment, such as leadership style, shape PSRB. The current study aims to address this research gap by examining the relationship between ethical leadership and PSRB. Specifically, drawing from the social information processing theory, we propose a dual process model that ethical leadership enhances employees' PSRB via psychological safety and job autonomy. We further investigate the moderating effect of employees' risk taking propensity in the model. The participants were recruited from four organizations in three cities of China (i.e., Beijing, Shanghai, and Dalian). The data was collected at two time points to avoid the common met hod bias . At Time 1, ethical leadership, psychological safety, job autonomy, and risk taking propensity were measured. At Time 2, that is, one month later, participants' PSRB behavior was assessed. The final sample size was 241. We used SPSS 22.0 and Mplus 6.12 to analyse the data. First, we assessed the discriminant validity of the key variables through a series of confirmatory factor analyses (CPAs) and examined the common method variance. Afterwards, we used the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and bias-corrected bootstrap to test our hypotheses. The results showed a significantly positive relationship between ethical leadership and PSRB, and the relationship was mediated by psychological safety and job autonomy. Furthermore, individual risk taking propensity moderated the relationship between job autonomy and PSRB, such that the positive relationship was stronger for those employees with higher, rather than lower, levels of risk taking propensity. Our study contributes to the PSRB lit erature in several ways. Frist, we investigate the effects of ethical leadership on employees' PSRB, which broadens our understanding of how contextual factors influences PSRB. Second, we reveal the theoretical black-box of why ethical leadership facilitates PSRB by identifying psychological safety and job autonomy as two underlying mechanisms. Finally, we extend the ethical leadership and PSRB research by demonstrating risk taking propensity as a crucial contingency that moderates the effects of ethical leadership and job autonomy on PSRB. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 1
2016
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(2016): Which Basic Rules Underlie Social Judgments? Agency Follows a Zero-Sum Principle and Communion Follows a Non-Zero-Sum Principle. In: Personality & social psychology bulletin 42 (5), S. 677-687. DOI: 10.1177/0146167216640902
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27029579 Abstract: How are people who generally see others positively evaluated themselves? We propose that the answer to this question crucially hinges on the content domain: We hypothesize that Agency follows a "zero-sum principle" and therefore people who see others ashighin Agency are perceived aslowin Agency themselves. In contrast, we hypothesize that Communion follows a "non-zero-sum principle" and therefore people who see others ashighin Communion are perceived ashighin Communion themselves. We tested these hypotheses in a round-robin and a half-block study. Perceiving others as agentic was indeed linked to being perceived as low in Agency. To the contrary, perceiving others as communal was linked to being perceived as high in Communion, but only when people directly interacted with each other. These results help to clarify the nature of Agency and Communion and offer explanations for divergent findings in the literature. zitiert von 6
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(2016): Children’s Developing Understanding of the Conventionality of Rules. In: Journal of Cognition and Development 18 (2), S. 163-188. DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2016.1255624
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2016.1255624 Abstract: Much research has investigated how children relate to norms taught to them by adult authorities. Very few studies have investigated norms that arise out of children’s own peer interactions. In two studies, we investigated how 5- and 7-year-old children teach, enforce, and understand rules that they either created themselves or were taught by an adult. Children (N = 240) were asked to either invent game rules on their own or were taught these exact same rules by an adult (yoked design). Children of both ages enforced and transmitted the rules in a normative way, regardless of whether they had invented them or were taught the rules by an adult, suggesting that they viewed even their own self-made rules as normatively binding. However, creating the rules led 5-year-old children to understand them as much more changeable as compared with adult-taught rules. Seven-year-olds, in contrast, regarded both kinds of rules as equally changeable, indeed allowing fewer changes to the ir self- created rules than 5-year-olds. While the process of creating rules seemed to enlighten preschoolers’ understanding of the conventionality of the rules, school-aged children regarded both self-created rules and adult-taught rules in a similar manner, suggesting a deeper understanding of rule normativity as arising from social agreement and commitment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 2
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(2016): Children’s evaluations of rule violators. In: Cognitive Development 40, S. 132-143. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2016.09.001
Abstract: Children show remarkable sensitivity to others’ conformity to conventional norms. The present research examined how this sensitivity is reflected in preschool-aged (4- and 5- year-old; N = 45) and young school-aged (7- and 8-year-old; N = 45) children’s evaluations of people who violate rules. In two studies, children were made to believe they were playing a game against real, online opponents. Opponents either conformed to or violated the rules of the game, and their actions produced either positive or negative outcomes for the child. Children evaluated each opponent on a set of interaction, affiliation, and learning questions. Preschool-aged children’s evaluations primarily depended on whether or not people violated the rules, regardless of the circumstances of their violations. Young school-aged children’s social evaluations, however, were also influenced by the helpfulness or harmfulness of the violators’ actions. zitiert von 3
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(2016): Social Practices and Normativity. In: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37 (1), S. 46-56. DOI: 10.1177/0048393106296542
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(2016): When Justice Promotes Injustice. Why Minority Leaders Experience Bias When They Adhere to Interpersonal Justice Rules. In: Academy of Management Journal 59 (4), S. 1150-1173. DOI: 10.5465/amj.2014.0275
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5465/amj.2014.0275 Abstract: Accumulated knowledge on organizational justice leaves little reason to doubt that organizational members benefit when leaders adhere to interpersonal justice rules. However, upon considering how justice behaviors influence subordinates’ cognitive processes, we predict that interpersonal justice has a surprising, unintended negative consequence. Supervisors who violate interpersonal justice rules trigger subordinates to search for reasons why their supervisors are threatening them, causing subordinates to be more attuned to supervisors’ individual characteristics and therefore unlikely to use stereotypes when evaluating them. In contrast, supervisors who adhere to interpersonal justice rules allow subordinates to divert attention away from them, leading subordinates’ judgments of their supervisors to be influenced by stereotypes. Consistent with these predictions, using field data we found that minority supervisors faced bias relative to Caucasian supervisors when s uperviso rs adhered to—but not when they violated—interpersonal justice rules. We replicated this effect in an experiment and established that it is explained by an alternating pattern of stereotype application and inhibition: the stereotype that minority supervisors are more deceitful than Caucasians influenced fairness judgments when supervisors adhered to—but not when they violated—interpersonal justice rules. We then conducted exploratory analyses and identified one factor (unit size) that mitigates this troubling pattern. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 5
2015
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(2015): Understanding social norms and constitutive rules. Perspectives from developmental psychology and philosophy. In: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 14 (4), S. 699-718. DOI: 10.1007/s11097-015-9426-y
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-015-9426-y Abstract: An experimental paradigm that purports to test young children’s understanding of social norms is examined. The paradigm models norms on Searle’s notion of a constitutive rule. The experiments and the reasons provided for their design are discussed. It is argued that the experiments do not provide direct evidence about the development of social norms and that the concepts of a social norm and constitutive rule are distinct. The experimental data are re-interpreted, and suggestions for how to deal with the present criticism are presented that do not require abandoning the paradigm as such. Then the conception of normativity that underlies the experimental paradigm is rejected and an alternative view is put forward. It is argued that normativity emerges from interaction and engagement, and that learning to comply with social norms involves understanding the distinction between their content, enforcement, and acceptance. As opposed to rule-based accounts that picture the developm ent of an understanding of social norms as one-directional and based in enforcement, the present view emphasizes that normativity is situated, reciprocal, and interactive. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 4
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(2015): Psychological characteristics of the rules of subordination within the cultural and historical analysis. In: Cultural-Historical Psychology 11 (4), S. 89-95. DOI: 10.17759/chp.2015110408
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/chp.2015110408 Abstract: The article examines the psychology of submission. Given psychological characteristic standards of submission historically embodied in the moral codes and legal sources. The subject of analysis are historical regulations XII—XX centuries, the customs, in which the fixed rate of submission, as well as the memoir literature. There are four basic psychological lines of development in the history of the rules of subordination, in particular: a special regulation of the rules of subordination and increasing social importance of the role of subordinate. It is proved that psychological acceptance of a subordinate role and the satisfaction of its implementation includes the requirement of special rules regulating authority and emphasis on the social importance of the role of subordinate. It was established that one of the reasons that the job satisfaction of employees of state structures higher than employees of private companies, a large schema definition of relations with man agement. Hierarchical role is considered in terms of two components: the role of attributes and rules, rules of conduct. The article focuses on the fact that the individual external signs, locking status subordination, increase the level of self-esteem of subordinate. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Authority, Historie, History, PSYCHOLOGY, rules, Self-Esteem, Social Processes, Sociocultural Factors, Sonstiges -
(2015): Young Women’s Anger in Romantic Relationships. Gendered Rules and Power. In: Journal of Family Issues 38 (13), S. 1825-1851. DOI: 10.1177/0192513X15592029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X15592029 Abstract: We used a social constructionist and feminist framework to examine how young women negotiate gendered rules for anger in their romantic relationships and how such negotiations are associated with women’s power in these relationships. We analyzed 24 interviews using a grounded-theory methodology. Our analyses indicated five women resisted gendered rules for anger as they accepted their anger, attributed shared responsibility for their anger, and expressed their anger externally and directly. The other 19 young women followed gendered rules for anger as they distanced themselves from their anger, ambivalently attributed responsibility for their anger, and kept their anger in and expressed it indirectly. Women who resisted gendered rules for anger narrated being engaged in egalitarian relationships, while women who followed gendered rules for anger seemed to participate in nonegalitarian relationships. The findings of this study offer a feminist conceptualization of women⍊ s ange r in terms of social rules for anger experience and expression. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Keywords: Anger, Emotions, Family, feminism, Geschlechterforschung, Human Females, Partnerschaft/ Beziehung, Romance, rules -
(2015): Why Seemingly Trivial Events Sometimes Evoke Strong Emotional Reactions. The Role of Social Exchange Rule Violations. In: The Journal of Social Psychology 155 (6), S. 559-575. DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2015.1084985
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26331429 Abstract: People sometimes display strong emotional reactions to events that appear disproportionate to the tangible magnitude of the event. Although previous work has addressed the role that perceived disrespect and unfairness have on such reactions, this study examined the role of perceived social exchange rule violations more broadly. Participants (N = 179) rated the effects of another person's behavior on important personal outcomes, the degree to which the other person had violated fundamental rules of social exchange, and their reactions to the event. Results showed that perceptions of social exchange rule violations accounted for more variance in participants' reactions than the tangible consequences of the event. The findings support the hypothesis that responses that appear disproportionate to the seriousness of the eliciting event are often fueled by perceived rule violations that may not be obvious to others. zitiert von 5
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(2015) : Technology and Social Control In: Wright, James D.: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition): Oxford: Elsevier, S. 117-124
Abstract: One aspect of modernization is the use of science-based technology in rule enforcement. In the ‘engineered society,’ an ethos of rationalization is seen in the application of means to ends. The events of 11 September 2001, and the war on terror have brought increased attention to the question, but the increased use of technical means for control reflects continuity rather than disjuncture. Six social control strategies are discussed and illustrated: target removal, target devaluation, target insulation, offender incapacitation, offender exclusion, and identification of offenses and offenders. In complex settings in a democratic society, relying primarily on technology to control human behavior has clear social and ethical limitations. The technology's narrowing of focus may come at a cost of failing to see larger systemic contexts, alternatives, and longer range consequences. The complexity and fluidity of human situations makes this a rich area for the study of trade-off, irony, and paradox. There are some parallels to iatrogenic medical practices in which one problem is cured, but at a cost of creating another. Technical efforts to ensure conformity may be hindered by conflicting goals, unintended consequences, displacement, lessened equity, complacency, neutralization, invalidity, escalation, system overload, a negative image of personal dignity and the danger of the means determining, or becoming ends. zitiert von 39
Keywords: Deviance, Dignity, Manipulation, Means–ends relations, Medien, Mensch-Technik-Relation, Police, RATIONALITY, rules, science direct, social control, Social engineering, surveillance, Suspect weakening, System overload, Target hardening, technology, Unintended consequences, Verhaltensforschung -
(2015): Communicating eating-related rules. Suggestions are more effective than restrictions. In: Appetite 86, S. 45-53
Abstract: Compared restrictive and suggested eating-related rules intended to curb unhealthy eating behavior to assess their effects on food consumption. Both restrictive and suggested rules were expected to be equally successful initially, but a restrictive rule was predicted to have negative after-effects once it was no longer in place. The role of reactance in the expected behavioral differences was empirically tested. Participants were exposed to M&M's while completing a creativity task. Consumption was either explicitly forbidden (restrictive rule) or mildly discouraged (suggested rule). In the control condition, participants were either explicitly allowed to consume M&M's or were not provided M&M's at all. Measures of psychological reactance were assessed following completion of the task. Participants then took part in a taste test in which they were allowed to freely consume M&M's. Results showed that both types of rules were equally successful initially in curbing unhealthy eating behavior during the creativity task. However, when allowed to eat freely, participants in the restrictive-rule group consumed more M&M's in the taste test and reported higher levels of psychological reactance than the suggested-rule participants or control group participants, supporting expectations that restrictive rules result in a negative after-effect. Both communication forms are considered initially successful in reducing unhealthy eating behavior, but a suggestive rule appears to be a more successful way to communicate healthy habits that remain in effect even after the rule is no longer in place. zitiert von 13
2014
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(2014): Compliance with Cultural Rules of Children Having Different Level of Creativity. In: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 146, S. 192-195. DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.08.109
Abstract: The objective of the research is to reveal 5-6-year-old children's observation of rules generally accepted in culture. We assumed that children with a high level of creativity display less compliance with rules in comparison with children having a low level of creativity. The results of the research have confirmed this assumption: children with high creativity have less degree of compliance with cultural rules. The empirical research reveals creativity through studying of children's drawings when the child is offered to finish the drawing of the given figures. Child's compliance with rules – cultural congruence - is found out by means of the technique based on parents’ expert evaluations. The revealed connection between creativity and cultural congruence is of practical value when it comes to the assessment of the child's behavior with a high level of creativity. The obtained results can be used in the psychological follow-up of gifted children with a high level of creativity experiencing difficulties of non-compliance with typical cultural rules in the standard social interaction. zitiert von 10
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(2014): Follow the rules and no one will get hurt. Performing boundary work to avoid negative interactions when using social network sites. In: Information, Communication & Society 18 (2), S. 187-201. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2014.946433
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2014.946433 Abstract: Social network sites (SNSs), like Facebook, have widespread appeal among emerging adults, yet they also present the potential for negative interactions. Interviews (N = 227) with emerging adults from Wave 3 of the National Study of Youth and Religion reveal the boundary work emerging adults undergo to limit negative SNS interactions and how they navigate the dynamic and permeable boundaries between positive and negative interactions. This work includes following three informal rules meant to limit negative interactions: do not share excessive personal information, do not spy on or stalk other users, and make online friendships with people one already knows. Several important implications result from this boundary work: crossing boundaries can have negative offline and online consequences, following the informal rules helps stabilize SNS communities by limiting the potential and severity of harmful interactions, and SNS may be popular among emerging adults but some disench antment is not uncommon and some emerging adults may not use SNS as a result. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 6
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(2014): Unwritten rules. Virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society. In: Trends in cognitive sciences 18 (10), S. 512-519. DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2014.05.010
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25073460 Abstract: Many social interactions require humans to coordinate their behavior across a range of scales. However, aspects of intentional coordination remain puzzling from within several approaches in cognitive science. Sketching a new perspective, we propose that the complex behavioral patterns - or 'unwritten rules' - governing such coordination emerge from an ongoing process of 'virtual bargaining'. Social participants behave on the basis of what they would agree to do if they were explicitly to bargain, provided the agreement that would arise from such discussion is commonly known. Although intuitively simple, this interpretation has implications for understanding a broad spectrum of social, economic, and cultural phenomena (including joint action, team reasoning, communication, and language) that, we argue, depend fundamentally on the virtual bargains themselves. zitiert von 27
2013
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(2013): A Simulation of Rule-Breaking Behavior in Public Places. In: Social Science Computer Review 32 (4), S. 439-452. DOI: 10.1177/0894439313511186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439313511186 Abstract: A computer simulation based on both game theory and the cellular automaton model was conducted to investigate the effects of individuals’ interactions and certain conditions on the spread of rule-breaking behavior in public places. Four decision matrices representing obedient, deviant, conforming, and contrary principles were prepared experimentally. The ratio of these principles ranged from 1:2:3:4 to 4:3:2:1 (obedient:deviant:conforming:contrary). There were a total of 24 data sets with each data set composed of 10 decision matrices. In addition to these 24 data sets, the ratio 1:1:1:1 was prepared. This data set was composed of four decision matrices. The results indicated that rule-breaking behavior spreads under the following conditions: (A) when people act according to both individual factors (e.g., their attitudes) and situational factors (e.g., their neighbors’ behavior); (B) when there are more deviant people than obedient people; (C) when the intensity of ru le-break ing behavior is higher than that of rule-obeying behavior. Condition A is an important factor. If conditions B or C are satisfied, the spread of rule-breaking behavior does not occur necessarily. At a certain probability threshold, rule-breaking behavior spreads sharply when people act based on individual factors (e.g., their attitudes); the spread of such behavior cannot be attributed solely to situational factors (e.g., neighbors' behavior). There is only a fine line between rule breaking and obeying near the probability threshold. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) zitiert von 6