People are conditional rule followers

Pieter T.M. Desmet and Christoph Engel

Journal of Economic Psychology, 2021, vol. 85, issue C

Abstract: Experimental participants are more likely to follow an arbitrary rule the more others in their reference group do so as well. The effect is most pronounced for individuals who follow few rules when not knowing others’ behavior. Unlike what is observed for conditional cooperation, learning that only few others follow a rule does not reduce rule following.

Keywords: Conditional rule following; Deontological motives; Conditional cooperation; Experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 C91 D03 D63 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2021.102384

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