Norms against voting for coerced reform.

Some reforms, such as the passing of a prohibitive law or a binding agreement to solve a social dilemma, involve coercion. In hypothetical cases, Ss sometimes said they would not support coerced reforms even though they acknowledged that the reforms would improve matters. Ss justified such resistance by noting that the reform would harm some group (despite helping many others), that a choice would be taken away that people ought to be able to make (i.e., that a right would be violated), or that the reform would produce an unfair distribution of costs or benefits