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Descriptive norms can be seen operating when street performers, cocktail lounge pianists, coat-check attendants, baristas, and others who work for tips \u201cseed\u201d their tip containers with bills in the amounts they hope their customers will contribute. The idea is that if a pianist\u2019s tip jar already holds a few five-dollar bills, and maybe even a ten, listeners are led to assume that these are normal tip amounts and might thus be more likely to contribute similar amounts themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Descriptive norms can be seen operating when street performers, cocktail lounge pianists, coat-check attendants, baristas, and others who work for tips \u201cseed\u201d their tip containers with bills in the amounts they hope their customers will contribute. The idea is that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcjttF-4Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":348,"url":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/24\/exploiting-descriptive-norms-to-promote-green-choices\/","url_meta":{"origin":300,"position":0},"title":"Exploiting Descriptive Norms to Promote Green Choices","author":"dbernstein","date":"May 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"An example of the influence of descriptive norms on hotel guests\u2019 compliance with requests to re-use towels rather than have them changed every day can be found in this study that compared three kinds of phrasings on the request cards. Cards that emphasized the high percentage of guests who re-use\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Social Psychology"","block_context":{"text":"Social Psychology","link":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/category\/social\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":346,"url":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2024\/05\/24\/a-little-known-disorder\/","url_meta":{"origin":300,"position":1},"title":"A Little-Known Disorder","author":"dbernstein","date":"May 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"An article found here describes the prevalence, phenomenology, and impact of misophonia, a little known disorder characterized by decreased tolerance for and negative reactions to certain sounds and associated stimuli, which contribute to impairment and distress.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "Psychological Disorders"","block_context":{"text":"Psychological Disorders","link":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/category\/disorders\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":92,"url":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/05\/the-biological-bases-of-behavior\/","url_meta":{"origin":300,"position":2},"title":"The Biological Bases of Behavior","author":"dbernstein","date":"September 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The first example in this chapter of the book is designed to illustrate both the integrated nature of the central and peripheral nervous systems and the complex chain of physical and biological processes that underlie even the simplest forms of behavior: If your teacher asks you to raise your right\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Biological Aspects of Psychology"","block_context":{"text":"Biological Aspects of Psychology","link":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/category\/biopsych\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}