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The Constructive, Destructive, and Reconstructive Power of Social Norms
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Despite a long tradition of effectiveness in laboratory tests, normative messages have had mixed success in changing behavior in field contexts, with some studies showing boomerang effects. To test a theoretical account of this inconsistency, we conducted a field experiment in which normative messages were used to promote household energy conservation. As predicted, a descriptive normative message detailing average neighborhood usage produced either desirable energy savings or the undesirable boomerang effect, depending on whether households were already consuming at a low or high rate. Also as predicted, adding an injunctive message (conveying social approval or disapproval) eliminated the boomerang effect. The results offer an explanation for the mixed success of persuasive appeals based on social norms and suggest how such appeals should be properly crafted.
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“Finally, for households consuming above the average, the combined descriptive-plusinjunctive message served to decrease energy consumption (M = 18.91,SE = 0.73 vs. baseline M = 20.63,SE = 0.64; n = 63), t(62) = 2.49, p rep = .96,d = 0.63.”
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“In contrast, for households that were below the mean on baseline energy consumption, the descriptivenorm-only message produced an increase in energy consumption from baseline (M = 11.27,SE = 0.46 vs. baseline M = 10.38,SE = 0.33; n = 79), t(78) = 2.28, p rep = .94,d = 5 0.52.”
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“For example, in the short term, the reduction in energy usage for high-consuming households was 1.72 kWh/day in the descriptive-plus-injunctive condition, compared with 1.22 kWh/day in the descriptive-only condition.”
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“However, the combined injunctive-plus-descriptive message produced no change from baseline for low-consuming households (longer-term M = 10.14, SE = 0.37 vs. baseline M = 10.04,SE = 0.35; n = 70), t(69) = 0.64, n.s.”
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“For those households initially low in energy consumption, the descriptive-norm-only condition produced a significant increase in electricity usage (longer-term M = 11.13,SE =0.44 vs. baseline M = 10.15,SE = 0.34; n = 68), t(67) = 2.42, p rep = .95,d = 0.59.”
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“For households that consumed more than the average during the baseline period, the descriptivenorm-only feedback produced a significant decrease in energy consumption relative to the baseline (M = 20.25,SE = 1.03 vs. baseline M = 21.47,SE = 0.89; n =64), t(63) = 2.17, p rep = .93,d = 0.55.”
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“When the injunctive message was added to the descriptive normative feedback, households that were consuming less energy than average continued to consume at the desirable low rate (M = 10.58,SE = 0.38 vs. baseline M = 10.34,SE = 0.33; n =81), t(80) = 1.04, n.s.”
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“The majority of individuals overestimate the prevalence of many undesirable behaviors, such as alcohol use among peers (e.g., Borsari & Carey, 2003;Prentice & Miller, 1993)”
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“Moreover, despite concerns that normative interventions have an effect for only a short time, the longer-term results indicate that the effects of the normative messages continued to be strong even 4 weeks after the initial intervention.”
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“Overall, the results for both the short-term measure and the longer-term measure were consistent with predictions.”
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“For those households that were high in energy consumption at baseline, the descriptive-norm-only message continued to produce the (constructive) decrease in energy consumption, although the difference was not conventionally significant (baseline M = 22.32, SE = 1.05 vs. longer-term M = 21.29,SE = 0.92; n = 52), t(51) = 1.45, n.s.”
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“Our results show this overall pattern, although the differences were not statistically significant.”
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“At each measurement period, daily household energy consumption was positively skewed (M = 15.03,SD 5 7.10, skew = 1.39, range = 1.63-35.88),resulting in more households below the mean than above.”
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“Of the 287 households in the study, 41 were inconsistently above or below the average across the 2 weeks of normative feedback and were therefore excluded from the analyses of longer-term change.There were no significant differences in inconsistency rate across the four experimental conditions.”
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“Our results demonstrate the potential for such messages to boomerang, but the results also show that an injunctive element of approval is reconstructive in its ability to ameliorate these unwanted effects.”
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“Second, prior research has suggested that presenting aligned descriptive and injunctive norms can result in larger behavioral changes than presenting either type of norm in isolation (Cialdini, 2003).”
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“Households were matched on this baseline measure and randomly assigned to either the descriptive-norm-only condition or the descriptive-plusinjunctive-information condition.”
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“Three households called to withdraw from the study following the initial normative-feedback distribution, resulting in a final sample of 287.”
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“On 157 occasions, two research assistants were assigned to read the same meter.These independent readings correlated at r 5 .999.”
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“Thus, the overall impact of a normative education campaign will depend on the distribution of the behavior in the population; a campaign could produce an increase, decrease, or no change in the behavior (the latter being most likely).”
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“Our results suggest that for those individuals who tend to engage in destructive behaviors, a descriptive normative message can be a guide to engaging in more constructive behavior; in contrast, for those individuals who already engage in the constructive behavior, a descriptive normative message can be a spur to engaging in more destructive behavior.”
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“The results offer an explanation for the mixed success of persuasive appeals based on social norms and suggest how such appeals should be properly crafted.”
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“the research has clearly established that social norms not only spur but also guide action in direct and meaningful ways (Aarts & Dijksterhuis, 2003;Cialdini, Kallgren, & Reno, 1991;Darley & Latane´, 1970;Goldstein, Cialdini, & Griskevicius, 2006;Kerr, 1995;Terry & Hogg, 2001).”
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Energy conservation has a direct personal benefit (saving money), is private, is recurring rather than a one-time action, and has widespread social approval.
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Residents perceive descriptive normative information about the average household's energy consumption as a descriptive norm.
“descriptive normative information about the actual energy consumption of the average household in their neighborhood during that same period (in kilowatt-hours per day)”
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“Research has shown that placing a greater emphasis on the injunctive norm can help to overcome the problem of a negative descriptive norm (Schultz et al., 2007; Smith and Louis, 2008).”
From A Social Identity Analysis of Climate Change and Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors: Insights and Opportunities (2016) · cites this paper as Schultz et al., 2007
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“Notice that many of the experiments just mentioned were field studies, that is, they were conducted in naturalistic contexts ensuring high ecological validity (see Schultz et al. [2007]; Goldstein et al. [2008]; Gerber and Rogers [2009]; Hallsworth et al. [2017]; Sparkman and Walton [2017]).”
From Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms (2023) · cites this paper as Schultz et al. [2007]
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“in one study, (Californian) households informed that they used more electricity than all the other households in their neighbourhood subsequently reduced their energy consumption, whereas households informed that they used less than all others increased it (Schultz et al. [2007]).”
From Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms (2023) · cites this paper as Schultz et al. [2007]
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“many of the experiments on descriptive norms discussed earlier can in fact be viewed as involving actual instances of PST on their own: they involve public (descriptive-norms conveying) claims by scientific or otherwise authoritative sources about negative features”
From Science Communication and the Problematic Impact of Descriptive Norms (2023) · cites this paper as Schultz et al. [2007]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Schultz, P. W., Nolan, J. M., Cialdini, R. B., Goldstein, N. J., & Griskevicius, V.
- Affiliations
- California State University, San Marcos (US)
- 2 University of Arkansas
- Arizona State University (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-05
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 429-434
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2147478345
- Cited by
- 3,643
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 156 · 2025: 222 · 2024: 235 · 2023: 231 · 2022: 243 · 2021: 329 · 2020: 244 · 2019: 284 · 2018: 241 · 2017: 225 · 2016: 232 · 2015: 226 · 2014: 185 · 2013: 172 · 2012: 138
- FWCI
- 233.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- John Spoor Broome Library Institutional Repository (California State University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Pro-Environmental Behavior and Attitudes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychology of Social Influence
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Keywords
- social norms, normative messages, boomerang effect, descriptive norms, injunctive norms, residential energy conservation, persuasive appeals, field experiments, social approval, energy conservation
- MeSH terms
- Conservation of Energy Resources, Family Characteristics, Humans, Persuasive Communication, Residence Characteristics, Social Behavior, Social Values
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