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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<\/a> that compared three kinds of phrasings on the request cards. Cards that emphasized the high percentage of guests who re-use their towels resulted in the highest rates of compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. … 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-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcjttF-5C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":300,"url":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/15\/everyday-examples-of-descriptive-norms-in-action\/","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":0},"title":"Everyday Examples of Descriptive Norms in Action","author":"dbernstein","date":"January 15, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"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\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":92,"url":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/05\/the-biological-bases-of-behavior\/","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":1},"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":[]},{"id":146,"url":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/2020\/09\/13\/competency-to-stand-trial\/","url_meta":{"origin":348,"position":2},"title":"Competency to Stand Trial","author":"dbernstein","date":"September 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a recent example in which the process of determining a criminal suspect's competency to stand trial took so long that the time he spent in jail awaiting trial exceeded the length of his ultimate prison sentence. It also exemplifies the fact that clinical judgments about competency and sanity\u2026","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":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","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=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychexamples.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}