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The erosion of personal norms and cognitive dissonance

2016

ABSTRACTIn this article, we study how personal norms and behaviour interact and evolve when agents try to reduce cognitive dissonance, and how this dynamic relates to Nash equilibrium. We find that in long run, agents play, and norms prescribe, Nash equilibrium in material payoffs (in the absence of norms). Our model captures two main facts: (i) norms erode along the play of the game; (ii) the erosion of norms depends on the set of possible economic choices, so that the policy maker can potentially influence them.

Computer Science::Computer Science and Game TheoryEconomics and EconometricsSelf-justification05 social sciencesPolicy makerCognitive dissonancenorm dynamicsSettore SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICA050105 experimental psychologyNash equilibrium0506 political scienceMicroeconomicssymbols.namesakeNash equilibriumCognitive dissonance; dominant strategies; Nash equilibrium; norm dynamics; Economics and Econometricsdominant strategies050602 political science & public administrationsymbolsCognitive dissonanceEconomics0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSet (psychology)Mathematical economics
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The dynamics of personal norms and the determinants of cultural homogeneity

2017

This article studies the emergence of cultural homogeneity in personal norms when the behavior of heterogeneous individuals is driven both by economic incentives and by personal norms. Agents participate in a team production game by choosing their level of costly effort. Norms evolve along the life cycle of the individuals according to two psychological forces: cognitive dissonance or consistency and informational conformity. The model sheds light on how primitive economic and behavioral parameters such as the distribution of skills, the income distribution, and the levels of materialism, conformism, and consistency in the group determine the long-run culture and its degree of cultural homo…

cultural homogeneitySociology and Political Sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectHomogeneity (statistics)05 social sciencesCognitive dissonance; conformity; cultural homogeneity; personal norm dynamics; team production; Social Sciences (miscellaneous); Sociology and Political ScienceCognitive dissonanceteam productionSettore SECS-P/01 - ECONOMIA POLITICAConformityIncentive0502 economics and businessCognitive dissonance050207 economicsTeam productionPsychologySocial psychologySocial Sciences (miscellaneous)conformitypersonal norm dynamics050205 econometrics media_commonRationality and Society
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