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Norm Enforcement
“A rule may persist because some people pay a cost to defend it.”
01 / SUMMARY
In short
Norms are maintained through rewards, disapproval, exclusion, and formal or informal sanctions. Experiments find costly punishment in some games, but its frequency and effects vary across institutions and cultures.
03 / SCENE
In the wild
A team may spend time correcting someone who takes another person's credit in order to protect a shared attribution norm.
04 / LIMIT
The limit
Sanctions do not always improve cooperation; they can produce fear, retaliation, abuse, or surface compliance.
FINAL NOTE
What remains
Examine who may sanction, which controls apply, and what behavior the system actually reinforces.