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David Savage and Benno Torgler
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Benno Torgler: Queensland University of Technology

Chapter 7 in The Times They Are A Changin’: The Effect of Institutional Change on Cooperative Behaviour at 26,000 ft over Sixty Years, 2015, pp 63-68 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Savage and Torgler conclude that competing social institutions are mutually detrimental and have shied behavioural norms, weakening pro-social and helping behaviour and have been progressively crowding out positive behaviours over the last sixty years. There appears to be an internal weakening of social norms between traditional climbers, driven by the inability to maintain the social norm through enforcement leading to its likely eventual demise. However, evidence shows that the Sherpa may be responsible for the maintenance of altruistic and helping behaviour. The authors conclude asking the question whether their results are a high altitude reflection of modern society in an extreme life-and-death arena or merely the attitudes and behaviours of a sub-set of society that is not transferable to the general population.

Keywords: High Altitude; Social Norm; Social Institution; Social Emotion; Behavioural Norm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137525154_7

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