I've Got My Eyes on You: Implicit Social-Pressure Cues and Prosocial Behavior

Political Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-33

  Panagopoulos, Costas ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Field experiment; Implicit social pressure; Observability; Prosocial behavior; Social norms; Surveillance; Visual cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892864474     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pops.12074     Document Type: Article

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