塑造社会规范：关于言论自由法规范影响的实验证据

IF 2.3 2区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Psychology Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2025.102799

Daniel L. Chen , Susan Yeh

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法律塑造价值观吗？我们通过测试法律领域内的法律和规范模型来探讨这个问题-美国淫秽法-其中经济激励不是社会变革的主要驱动力。我们的随机实验让数据录入人员抄写有关进步或保守法律决定的新闻报道。这个设计使我们能够观察到这些法律对态度和规范的影响。我们发现，接触进步的法律判决导致了性态度的自由化和规范观念的转变，尽管在自我报告的行为中没有。这些发现强调了法律的表现力，对社会和政治环境中的决策以及这些领域内理论模型的经验预测具有重要意义。

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Shaping societal norms: Experimental evidence on the normative impact of free speech law

Do laws shape values? We explore this question by testing a model of law and norms within a legal realm − U.S. obscenity laws − where economic incentives are not the primary drivers of social change. Our randomized experiment had data entry workers transcribe news reports of either progressive or conservative legal decisions. This design allowed us to observe the impact of these laws on attitudes and norms. We found that exposure to progressive legal decisions resulted in the liberalization of sexual attitudes and a shift in norm perceptions, though not in self-reported behavior. These findings underscore the expressive power of law, with significant implications for decision-making in social and political settings, as well as for the empirical predictions of theoretical models within these domains.

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Journal of Economic Psychology Multiple-

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5.20

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31.40%

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63 days

期刊介绍： The Journal aims to present research that will improve understanding of behavioral, in particular psychological, aspects of economic phenomena and processes. The Journal seeks to be a channel for the increased interest in using behavioral science methods for the study of economic behavior, and so to contribute to better solutions of societal problems, by stimulating new approaches and new theorizing about economic affairs. Economic psychology as a discipline studies the psychological mechanisms that underlie economic behavior. It deals with preferences, judgments, choices, economic interaction, and factors influencing these, as well as the consequences of judgements and decisions for economic processes and phenomena. This includes the impact of economic institutions upon human behavior and well-being. Studies in economic psychology may relate to different levels of aggregation, from the household and the individual consumer to the macro level of whole nations. Economic behavior in connection with inflation, unemployment, taxation, economic development, as well as consumer information and economic behavior in the market place are thus among the fields of interest. The journal also encourages submissions dealing with social interaction in economic contexts, like bargaining, negotiation, or group decision-making. The Journal of Economic Psychology contains: (a) novel reports of empirical (including: experimental) research on economic behavior; (b) replications studies; (c) assessments of the state of the art in economic psychology; (d) articles providing a theoretical perspective or a frame of reference for the study of economic behavior; (e) articles explaining the implications of theoretical developments for practical applications; (f) book reviews; (g) announcements of meetings, conferences and seminars.