Social norms as signals

L Eriksson - Social Theory and Practice, 2019 - JSTOR
… to the signaling theory of social norms, people comply with social norms in order to signal that
… account the fact that the signaling value of social norm compliance depends on how many …

Symbols, signals, and social norms in politics and the law

EA Posner - The Journal of Legal Studies, 1998 - journals.uchicago.edu
… different kinds of behavior, understanding social norms requires the use of different models
… class of social norms arises from signaling games in which people choose actions that signal

The signaling model of social norms: Further thoughts

EA Posner - U. Rich. L. Rev., 2002 - HeinOnline
… though Schaefer might mean this argument as a critique, I think it captures an essential
characteristic of social norms, namely, that obedience to social norms involves a kind of hypocrisy…

Government, Signaling, and Social Norms

K Madison - University of Illinois Law Review, 2001 - HeinOnline
… efficiency of social norms, explores … signaling and autonomy, privacy, and community. This
review, however, will focus on his discussions of signaling and its relationship to social norms

Signalling and social norms

N Duxbury - Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2001 - JSTOR
… We might simply send out a signal, or we might send out a signalsignals in order to reinforce
or change social norms—are especially evident if one considers the phenomenon of norm-…

Trust as a signal of a social norm and the hidden costs of incentive schemes

D Sliwka - American Economic Review, 2007 - aeaweb.org
… In this way, we model the importance of social norms for individual decisions. We … , the
principal can signal her conviction that most people are fair. If this signal is credible, trust may …

Can contracts signal social norms? Experimental evidence

A Danilov, D Sliwka - Management Science, 2017 - pubsonline.informs.org
… We investigate whether incentive schemes signal social norms and thus affect behavior
beyond their direct economic consequences. A one-shot principal–agent experiment is studied …

Signaling or Reciprocating-A Response to Eric Posner's Law and Social Norms

DM Kahan - U. Rich. L. Rev., 2002 - HeinOnline
… , Posner's signaling model, I will argue, furnishes a poor vehicle for the social norms and law
… law and social norms. The first is behavioral realism: for a theory to be reliable, it must rest …

The evolution of social norms

HP Young - Annual Review of Economics, 2015 - annualreviews.org
… the mechanisms that can support a social norm, nor are these … (a coordination motive) and
also signals the family’s status. … table manners signals a lack of sensitivity to social norms (…

Mixed Signals: Rational-Choice Theories of Social Norms and the Pragmatics of Explanation

WB Wendel - Ind. LJ, 2002 - HeinOnline
signaling model of social norms, as developed by Eric Posner in a series of articles and his
book, Law and Social Norms … This emphasis is not a reflection of the success of the signaling