We found, for instance, that personality mattered: more honest and humble people reported more of a duty to obey the law. We saw that people who were more engaged with moral issues felt more obligated to obey the law, as were people with a more conservative political orientation.2 Perhaps most illuminating, in a study of adolescents and their parents, we found that when parents felt more of a duty to obey the law, so did their children.3 From these later findings, we began to see that people’s civil obedience, their sense of duty to obey the law, may be something they learn and get socialized
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