Social Monitoring Matters for Deterring Social Deviance in Stable but Not Mobile Socio-Ecological Contexts
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jenny Su, St. Lawrence University
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Project Citation:
Su, Jenny. Social Monitoring Matters for Deterring Social Deviance in Stable but Not Mobile Socio-Ecological Contexts. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2016-11-10. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100332V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Previous research suggests that reputational concerns can incentivize
cooperation and deter socially deviant behavior. The current research showed
that social monitoring of information that has the potential to damage one’s
reputation has differential effects on deviant behavior in social-ecological
environments that vary in level of mobility. Study 1 showed that residentially
stable cities that employed more journalists—who can be regarded as social
monitoring agents in a community—tended to have lower rates of violent crime
than residentially stable cities that employed fewer journalists; by contrast,
in residentially mobile cities, violent crime rates did not vary as a function
of the number of journalists employed. In Study 2, we found that individual differences
in perceptions of relational mobility moderated the effects of social
monitoring on cheating in a die-under-cup game. Specifically, social monitoring
cues reduced the likelihood of cheating but only among participants who
perceived their immediate social environment to be low in relational mobility.
The same results were replicated in Study 3, an experiment in which
participants' perception of relational mobility was manipulated before
completing an online maze game that allowed them to earn extra cash. In the low
mobility condition, the percentage of participants who continued working on the
mazes after reaching the time limit decreased as a function of social
monitoring; however, this pattern was not observed in the high mobility
condition. Together, our findings suggest that socioecological context matters
for understanding effective mechanisms of social control.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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social monitoring;
mobility;
social deviance
Geographic Coverage:
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USA,
Taiwan
Collection Date(s):
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1/1/2010 – 12/31/2014
Data Type(s):
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aggregate data;
experimental data
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