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emperor's dilemma: a standalone construct

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Sociology

a model of how norms that few people privately support persist because people enforce them publicly to signal that their own compliance is sincere.

In sociology, emperor's dilemma refers to a model of how norms that few people privately support persist because people enforce them publicly to signal that their own compliance is sincere. This meaning comes from Centola (2005) in American Journal of Sociology.[1]

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References

Centola, D., Willer, R., & Macy, M. (2005). The Emperor’s Dilemma: A Computational Model of Self‐Enforcing Norms. American Journal of Sociology, 110(4), 1009-1040. https://doi.org/10.1086/427321

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