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Experimental study reveals higher traffic signal violations among pedestrians following a nonconforming high-status model, indicating social status amplifies imitation of rule-breaking.
Pedestrians violated the prohibition of an automatic traffic signal more often in the presence of an experimenter's model who violated the prohibition than when the latter conformed or was absent. Significantly more violations occurred among pedestrians when the nonconforming model was dressed to represent high social status than when his attire suggested lower status.
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Lefkowitz et al. (1955) studied this question.
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