Social punishment for breaching restrictions during the COVID‐19 pandemic
通过快乐破坏小游戏，研究发现日本民众对违反防疫限制的商店会实施约11%的额外惩罚，但提供对比规范信息不会增加惩罚。
In response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, the Japanese government requested the temporary closure of businesses. Consequently, complying with restrictions came to be recognized as the social norm, and stores that continued with business as usual were seen as norm-breakers. This study empirically investigates costly punishment behavior for stores' violation of restrictions and how this behavior changes when a decision-maker receives information pertaining to contrasting norms, implicitly requiring the opposite response. By implementing joy-of-destruction minigames, we found that costly punishment behavior for norm-breakers was significantly stimulated (by approximately 11%) but not increased when additional information was provided.