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Cultural Collectivism and Tightness Moderate Responses to Norm Violators: Effects on Power Perception, Moral Emotions, and Leader Support

Responses to norm violators are poorly understood. On one hand, norm violators are perceived as powerful, which may help
them to get ahead. On the other hand, norm violators evoke moral outrage, which may frustrate their upward social mobility.
We addressed this paradox by considering the role of culture. Collectivistic cultures value group harmony and tight cultures
value social order. We therefore hypothesized that collectivism and tightness moderate reactions to norm violators. We
presented 2,369 participants in 19 countries with a norm violation or a norm adherence scenario. In individualistic cultures,
norm violators were considered more powerful than norm abiders and evoked less moral outrage, whereas in collectivistic
cultures, norm violators were considered less powerful and evoked more moral outrage. Moreover, respondents in tighter
cultures expressed a stronger preference for norm followers as leaders. Cultural values thus influence responses to norm
violators, which may have downstream consequences for violators' hierarchical positions.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:6956
Date January 2019
CreatorsStamkou, Eftychia, van Kleef, Gerben A., Homan, Astrid C., Gelfand, Michele J., van de Vijver, Fons J.R., van Egmond, Marieke C., Boer, Diana, Phiri, Natasha, Ayub, Nailah, Kinias, Zoe, Cantarero, Katarzyna, Treister, Dorit Efrat, Figueiredo, Ana, Hashimoto, Hirofumi, Hofmann, Eva, Lima, Renata P., Lee, I-Ching
PublisherSAGE
Source SetsWirtschaftsuniversität Wien
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, PeerReviewed
Formatapplication/pdf
RightsCreative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Relationhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167218802832, https://journals.sagepub.com/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/6956/

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