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- Title
Silence and Table Manners: When Environments Activate Norms.
- Authors
Joly, Janneke F.; Stapel, Diederik A.; Lindenberg, Siegwart M.
- Abstract
Two studies tested the conditions under which an environment (e.g., library, restaurant) raises the relevance of environment-specific social norms (e.g., being quiet, using table manners). As hypothesized, the relevance of such norms is raised when environments are goal relevant ("I am going there later") and when they are humanized with people or the remnants of their presence (e.g., a glass of wine on a table). Two studies show that goal-relevant environments and humanized environments raise the perceived importance of norms (Study 1) and the intention to conform to norms (Study 2). Interestingly, in both studies, these effects reach beyond norms related to the environments used in the studies.
- Subjects
TABLE etiquette; MANNERS &; customs; MEALS; TABLE setting &; decoration; CONDUCT of life; ETIQUETTE; LIFESTYLES; DATING (Social customs); COUNTRY life
- Publication
Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 2008, Vol 34, Issue 8, p1047
- ISSN
0146-1672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0146167208318401