INCENTIVES FOR COLLECTIVE DEVIANCE: GROUP SIZE AND CHANGES IN PERCEIVED RISK, COST, AND REWARD* Journal Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Research has demonstrated that the presence of others shifts decisionā€making about risky/deviant behavior. One reason for this shift could be changes in the anticipated experience of formal sanctions, informal costs, and rewards. To investigate this possibility, this study conducted two randomized controlled trials with hypothetical vignettes, in which a range of how many other people were also involved in the criminal act defined the treatment conditions. Across two samples of university students (Ns = 396 and 263), the results revealed that as the size of the involved group increased, the anticipated experience of sanction risk and several informal social costs associated with engaging in the act decreased, and the anticipated experience of two rewards increased. Additional analyses suggest that, with one exception in each data set, these changes are not only tied to the solo/group distinction.

publication date

  • August 1, 2016

has restriction

  • closed

Date in CU Experts

  • September 12, 2019 10:44 AM

Full Author List

  • MCGLOIN JM; THOMAS KJ

author count

  • 2

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0011-1384

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1745-9125

Additional Document Info

start page

  • 459

end page

  • 486

volume

  • 54

issue

  • 3