Rules as Contentless Standards of Conduct?

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Sebastian Herrmann presented a new study by Granulo et al. a few days ago. Armin Granulo works at the Technical University of Munich at the Chair of Marketing, his co-authors Christoph Fuchs and Robert Böhm at the University of Vienna. The study shows that people first perceive new codes of conduct as a restriction of their freedom, then see the advantages and yet accept them. Examples are the safety belt or the smoki…