Experimental evidence for the preventive effect of ignorance
The preventive effect of ignorance is a hypothesis about the stability of norms suggested by Heinrich Popitz (1968). This hypothesis claims that the numbers of unknown cases causes norm compliance. Thus, if the actual extent of norm violations were known, the normative system would deteriorate. If a...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | German |
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2011
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