Far from unorthodox, I have the impression that your suggestion is pretty much the most mainstream idea among people who actually care about such things. In fact, my first reaction wasn’t “Let’s punish!” It was “Okay, there are probably not enough rubbish bins. Put more of those, stick up some posters to shift public opinion towards littering looking low-class, and make sure to clean the street to make sure no one wants to be the first person to litter there.”
That said, I can’t think of anything to link without tricky searches, so I guess a full explanation may be somewhat novel.
Decreasing cognitive load in general makes people more rational. Joshua Greene cites that under a cognitive task, people are more likely to eat cake than an apple. There is less resource left for high-order cognitive tasks, like ‘avoid cake’.
Meaning that hurrying Koreans are dedicating less cognition to “to litter or not to litter” and if bins were around, they simply wouldn’t have to do that.
Far from unorthodox, I have the impression that your suggestion is pretty much the most mainstream idea among people who actually care about such things. In fact, my first reaction wasn’t “Let’s punish!” It was “Okay, there are probably not enough rubbish bins. Put more of those, stick up some posters to shift public opinion towards littering looking low-class, and make sure to clean the street to make sure no one wants to be the first person to litter there.”
That said, I can’t think of anything to link without tricky searches, so I guess a full explanation may be somewhat novel.
I felt the exact same.
Decreasing cognitive load in general makes people more rational. Joshua Greene cites that under a cognitive task, people are more likely to eat cake than an apple. There is less resource left for high-order cognitive tasks, like ‘avoid cake’.
Meaning that hurrying Koreans are dedicating less cognition to “to litter or not to litter” and if bins were around, they simply wouldn’t have to do that.