False enforcement as an impression management strategy: its social function in the process of pluralistic ignorance
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- Miyajima Takeru
- Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University
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- Yamaguchi Hiroyuki
- Faculty of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University
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- Other Title
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- 印象管理戦略としての偽りの実効化:多元的無知のプロセスにおける社会的機能
- インショウ カンリ センリャク ト シテ ノ イツワリ ノ ジッコウカ : タゲンテキ ムチ ノ プロセス ニ オケル シャカイテキ キノウ
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Abstract
<p>Pluralistic ignorance has been suggested to contribute to the perpetuation of social norms, sometimes even when the norms are unpopular and have already lost the support of the majority of group members. Previous studies have suggested that false enforcement could reinforce the perpetuation of unpopular norms by suppressing the number of deviants; however, little is known about the underlying psychological mechanism responsible for this. In the current study, we tested the hypothesis that impression management motivation induces false enforcement, and the perpetually low rates of men taking paternity leave in Japan was addressed as a topic. The results demonstrated that misperceiving others’ beliefs activates impression management motivation. Consequently, norm enforcement toward deviants can be induced even when people do not approve of the norm. This confirms the validity of the impression management strategy hypothesis, which states that people tend to enforce perceived norms based on self-presentational motivation rather than their willingness to persist with the unpopular norms in situations of pluralistic ignorance.</p>
Journal
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- THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
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THE JAPANESE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY 58 (1), 62-72, 2018
The Japanese Group Dynamics Association
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- CRID
- 1390282763022796544
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- NII Article ID
- 130007428275
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- NII Book ID
- AN00104794
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- ISSN
- 13486276
- 03877973
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- NDL BIB ID
- 029135825
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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- Disallowed