Bidirectional associations between descriptive and injunctive norms

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 129, Issue , 2015, Pages 59-69

  Eriksson, Kimmo ^a,b   Strimling, Pontus ^a,c   Coultas, Julie C ^a,d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic association; Conformity; Descriptive norms; Frequency dependence; Implicit association test; Injunctive norms; Moral judgments; Priming; Recall; Social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930821947     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2014.09.011     Document Type: Article

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