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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:6956 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Stamkou, 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 |
| Publisher | SAGE |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) |
| Relation | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0146167218802832, https://journals.sagepub.com/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/6956/ |
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