Silence and table manners: When environments activate norms

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1047-1056

  Joly, Janneke F ^a   Stapel, Diederik A ^b,c   Lindenberg, Siegwart M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Environment; Norms; Priming; Situationist perspective; Social influence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESTAURANTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 46249106773     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208318401     Document Type: Article

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