Can social norms overcome a public good dilemma? : experimental evidence for stated consent to organ donation

Höglinger, Marc

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Höglinger, Marc	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-12-11T13:21:23Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-12-11T13:21:23Z	-
dc.date.issued	2017	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/13705	-
dc.description.abstract	Normative influence and, more specifically, descriptive norms (Bicchieri 2006, Cialdini 1998) are powerful forces in shaping individual’s behavior in situations where private and collective interest clash. Various experimental studies have shown that individuals can be made to act more or less prosocial by changing their expectations about what other people do in the same situation (e.g. Schultz et al. 2007, Diekmann, Przepiorka and Rauhut 2015). I apply the so-called descriptive norms messaging approach to a prototypical social dilemma of high substantial relevance: the procurement of donor organs and its underlying micro-level decision problem, that is ,individuals’ (not) consenting to post-mortem organ donation. Donor organ shortage is a pervasive problem in Western countries and a main cause is that too few people grant permission for post-mortem organ donation. In order to test whether social norms influence donation consent decisions, I assigned subjects to different descriptive norm messages regarding the consent rate in the population and subsequently elicited their own consent. Results show that a strong descriptive norm message substantially increased stated consent for subjects without a donor card, whereas donor card holders remained unaffected.	de_CH
dc.language.iso	en	de_CH
dc.rights	Licence according to publishing contract	de_CH
dc.subject	Organ donation	de_CH
dc.subject	Prosocial behavior	de_CH
dc.subject	Public good	de_CH
dc.subject	Social norm	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	306.8: Familiensoziologie	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	362: Gesundheits- und Sozialdienste	de_CH
dc.title	Can social norms overcome a public good dilemma? : experimental evidence for stated consent to organ donation	de_CH
dc.type	Konferenz: Sonstiges	de_CH
dcterms.type	Text	de_CH
zhaw.departement	School of Management and Law	de_CH
zhaw.organisationalunit	Winterthurer Institut für Gesundheitsökonomie (WIG)	de_CH
zhaw.conference.details	Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2017, Zürich, 21-24 June 2017	de_CH
zhaw.funding.eu	No	de_CH
zhaw.originated.zhaw	Yes	de_CH
zhaw.publication.status	publishedVersion	de_CH
zhaw.publication.review	Keine Begutachtung	de_CH
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Höglinger, M. (2017). Can social norms overcome a public good dilemma? : experimental evidence for stated consent to organ donation. Kongress Der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Für Soziologie 2017, Zürich, 21-24 June 2017.

Höglinger, M. (2017) ‘Can social norms overcome a public good dilemma? : experimental evidence for stated consent to organ donation’, in Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2017, Zürich, 21-24 June 2017.

M. Höglinger, “Can social norms overcome a public good dilemma? : experimental evidence for stated consent to organ donation,” in Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2017, Zürich, 21-24 June 2017, 2017.

HÖGLINGER, Marc, 2017. Can social norms overcome a public good dilemma? : experimental evidence for stated consent to organ donation. In: Kongress der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2017, Zürich, 21-24 June 2017. Conference presentation. 2017

Höglinger, Marc. 2017. “Can Social Norms Overcome a Public Good Dilemma? : Experimental Evidence for Stated Consent to Organ Donation.” Conference presentation. In Kongress Der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Für Soziologie 2017, Zürich, 21-24 June 2017.

Höglinger, Marc. “Can Social Norms Overcome a Public Good Dilemma? : Experimental Evidence for Stated Consent to Organ Donation.” Kongress Der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft Für Soziologie 2017, Zürich, 21-24 June 2017, 2017.