>>> 2a) A corollary to the above is the lack of incentive to enforce various >>> _stated_ norms around appropriate behaviour such as crowding instead of >>> queueing.
>> question begging "cultural" norm. It would be interesting to gather >> observations as to which societies crowd, and which queue, see if >> there is a pattern and extract a hypothesis from that. > I spent the last 30 min digging into social psychology journals, but am > getting too distracted by other interesting stuff to find anything > directly relevant. :) Do you also want to try? I would love to, but my journal-fu is weak. Can you give me keywords that would tease out articles about cultures that queue versus those that don't? (Right now I'm being distracted by Google+ and by cooking beef cheeks braised in wine and verjus...) -- Charles
