prisoner's dilemma (PD) game. Whereas the existing literature on third-party intervention as a means to sustain social norms … steady downward trend of cooperation rates. -- social norms ; third-party reward ; third-party observation ; prisoner …

We propose a simple utility framework and design a novel two-part experiment to study the relevance of personal norms … across various economic games and settings. We show that personal norms — together with social norms and monetary payoff … — are highly predictive of individuals’ behavior. Moreover, they are: i) distinct from social norms across a series of …

While social norms have received great attention within economics, little is known about the role of personal norms. We … propose a simple utility framework - which assumes that people care about monetary payoff, social norms, and personal norms … - and design a novel two-part experiment to investigate the predictive value of personal norms across four economic games …

suggest that social norms can change rapidly as a result of election outcomes. We explore this conjecture using a controlled …