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Under the Influence

By Frank, Robert H

Under the Influence

By Frank, Robert H

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As psychologists have long understood, social environments profoundly shape our behavior, sometimes for the better, but often for the worse. Less widely noted is that social influence is a two-way street: Our environments are in large part themselves a product of the choices we make. Society embraces regulations that limit physical harm to others, as when smoking restrictions are defended as protecting bystanders from secondhand smoke. But we have been slower to endorse parallel steps that discourage harmful social environments, as when regulators fail to note that the far greater harm caused when someone becomes a smoker is to make others more likely to smoke. In Under the Influence, Robert Frank attributes this regulatory asymmetry to the laudable belief that individuals should accept responsibility for their own behavior. Yet that belief, he argues, is fully compatible with public policies that encourage supportive social environments.
Product details
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2020-01-28
Publication Date:
2020-01-28
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691193088
ISBN13:
9780691193083
Weight:
610 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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