TY - JOUR
T1 - The dynamics of personal norms and the determinants of cultural homogeneity
AU - Calabuig, Vicente
AU - Olcina, Gonzalo
AU - Panebianco, Fabrizio
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This article studies the emergence of cultural homogeneity in personal norms when the behavior of heterogeneous individuals is driven both by economic incentives and by personal norms. Agents participate in a team production game by choosing their level of costly effort. Norms evolve along the life cycle of the individuals according to two psychological forces: cognitive dissonance or consistency and informational conformity. The model sheds light on how primitive economic and behavioral parameters such as the distribution of skills, the income distribution, and the levels of materialism, conformism, and consistency in the group determine the long-run culture and its degree of cultural homogeneity.
AB - This article studies the emergence of cultural homogeneity in personal norms when the behavior of heterogeneous individuals is driven both by economic incentives and by personal norms. Agents participate in a team production game by choosing their level of costly effort. Norms evolve along the life cycle of the individuals according to two psychological forces: cognitive dissonance or consistency and informational conformity. The model sheds light on how primitive economic and behavioral parameters such as the distribution of skills, the income distribution, and the levels of materialism, conformism, and consistency in the group determine the long-run culture and its degree of cultural homogeneity.
KW - Cognitive dissonance
KW - Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
KW - Sociology and Political Science
KW - conformity
KW - cultural homogeneity
KW - personal norm dynamics
KW - team production
KW - Cognitive dissonance
KW - Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
KW - Sociology and Political Science
KW - conformity
KW - cultural homogeneity
KW - personal norm dynamics
KW - team production
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/122873
UR - http://rss.sagepub.com/
U2 - 10.1177/1043463117717233
DO - 10.1177/1043463117717233
M3 - Article
SN - 1043-4631
VL - 29
SP - 322
EP - 354
JO - Rationality and Society
JF - Rationality and Society
ER -