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If internalization is successful, external sanctions will play no role in eliciting conformity, and since individuals are motivated to conform, it follows that normative beliefs and actions will be consistent.
However, as we shall see in the next section, theoretical and empirical evidence weigh heavily in favor of empirical and normative expectations playing a crucial role in eliciting conformity to social norms.
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In almost all the literature on norms, it is unquestionably assumed that norms elicit conformity, and that there is a strong correlation between people's normative beliefs and their behavior.
Parsonian norms are internalized to the point that their existence can be elicited only when the norm is violated, and conformity to such norms is clearly unconditional.
For if their successful efforts to end terror failed to elicit a good-faith response from the Israelis, and if their conformity to international expectations and their co-operation in the US war on terror failed to convince the US to advocate effectively on their behalf, they could easily be branded as quislings, as trustees of the Israeli prison being inexorably constructed for their people.
The patients pushing the ball might represent a version of such conformity, but their collective effort, at once driven and exhilarated, elicits all kinds of unpredictable individual responses, from joy to despair.
The trick to a red carpet interview is to find a question interesting enough to elicit a decent response, yet considered safe by the celebrities' handlers, who could teach a lesson in enforcing conformity to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican.
This elicited a laugh.
Leprosy often elicits repugnance.
Haircuts that elicited applause.
That elicited a response.
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