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View article: Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures
Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures Open
Every social situation that people encounter in their daily lives comes with a set of unwritten rules about what behavior is considered appropriate or inappropriate. These everyday norms can vary across societies: some societies may have m…
View article: Same Flavors, Different Taste Buds: Predicting Social Norms Across Cultures and Domains
Same Flavors, Different Taste Buds: Predicting Social Norms Across Cultures and Domains Open
Social scientists have long sought to explain why social norms vary so dramatically across the globe, but creating predictive, falsifiable models has remained a major challenge. Here, we introduce and validate the Moral Flavors Model, a qu…
View article: Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Support for the Climate Movement and Climate Mitigation Policies
Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Support for the Climate Movement and Climate Mitigation Policies Open
In response to the escalating climate crisis, and with major climate policy reforms under debate across Europe, many environmental activists have turned to extreme protest tactics, such as vandalizing museums and obstructing major highways…
View article: Is the Welfare State Bad for Citizens’ Moral Character? Beliefs and Evidence
Is the Welfare State Bad for Citizens’ Moral Character? Beliefs and Evidence Open
Conservative thinkers have long warned that the welfare state may weaken society’s moral fiber. But this claim has not been empirically examined. The authors link publicly available data on the sizes of welfare states with behavioral data …
View article: Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies
Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies Open
View article: Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries
Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries Open
View article: Societal Variation in Moral and Everyday Norms can be Explained with a Simple Model: A New Theory and Cross-cultural Evidence
Societal Variation in Moral and Everyday Norms can be Explained with a Simple Model: A New Theory and Cross-cultural Evidence Open
View article: The Modern Justifications Theory of How Social Norms Vary Across Behaviors and Societies
The Modern Justifications Theory of How Social Norms Vary Across Behaviors and Societies Open
View article: Reputations for treatment of outgroup members can prevent the emergence of political segregation in cooperative networks
Reputations for treatment of outgroup members can prevent the emergence of political segregation in cooperative networks Open
View article: Everybody herds, sometimes: cumulative advantage as a product of rational learning
Everybody herds, sometimes: cumulative advantage as a product of rational learning Open
We propose a model of cumulative advantage (CA) as an unintended consequence of the choices of a population of individuals. Each individual searches for a high quality object from a set comprising high and low quality objects. Individuals …
View article: Private Benefits, Public Harms, and Citizen Participation in Corruption: a Field Experiment in Nairobi, Kenya
Private Benefits, Public Harms, and Citizen Participation in Corruption: a Field Experiment in Nairobi, Kenya Open
In a two-stage field experiment (N = 1,403) in Nairobi, Kenya, we demonstrate that citizens’ own self-interest legitimates common instances of corruption but concerns for harming others subsequently attenuates real willingness to participa…
View article: Radical Flanks of Social Movements Can Increase Support for Moderate Factions
Radical Flanks of Social Movements Can Increase Support for Moderate Factions Open
Social movements are critical agents of social change, but are rarely monolithic. Instead, movements are often made up of distinct factions with unique agendas and tactics, and there is little scientific consensus on when these factions ma…
View article: Radical flanks of social movements can increase support for moderate factions
Radical flanks of social movements can increase support for moderate factions Open
Social movements are critical agents of social change, but are rarely monolithic. Instead, movements are often made up of distinct factions with unique agendas and tactics, and there is little scientific consensus on when these factions ma…
View article: Inequality and cooperation in social networks
Inequality and cooperation in social networks Open
View article: Ideology shapes how workers perceive and react to workplace discrimination: An experimental study on parenthood discrimination
Ideology shapes how workers perceive and react to workplace discrimination: An experimental study on parenthood discrimination Open
View article: The Power of Tolerance vs. Unselfishness as a Cultural Determinant of Cooperation
The Power of Tolerance vs. Unselfishness as a Cultural Determinant of Cooperation Open
Cooperation in collective action problems and resource dilemmas is often assumed to depend on the values of the individuals involved, such as their degree of unselfishness and tolerance. Societal differences in cooperation and cooperative …
View article: Author Correction: Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies
Author Correction: Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies Open
Copyright © The Author(s) 2021. The original version of this Article contained an error in the author affiliations. Cecilia Reyna was incorrectly associated with ‘Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). Facultad de Psicología (UNC), Ciudad …
View article: Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies
Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies Open
View article: The robustness of reciprocity: Experimental evidence that each form of reciprocity is robust to the presence of other forms of reciprocity
The robustness of reciprocity: Experimental evidence that each form of reciprocity is robust to the presence of other forms of reciprocity Open
Multiple forms of reciprocity combine to shape prosociality.
View article: Judgments of Economic Fairness Are Based More on Perceived Economic Mobility Than Perceived Inequality
Judgments of Economic Fairness Are Based More on Perceived Economic Mobility Than Perceived Inequality Open
Are judgments of the fairness of the American economy based on perceptions of economic inequality, mobility, or both? In two experiments, the authors varied information on levels of U.S. inequality and mobility, measuring effects on indivi…
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Previous articleNext article FreeContributorsPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreMonica C. Bell is associate professor of l…
View article: Political double standards in reliance on moral foundations
Political double standards in reliance on moral foundations Open
Prior research using the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ) has established that political ideology is associated with self-reported reliance on specific moral foundations in moral judgments of acts. MFQ items do not specify the agents …
View article: The strength of dynamic ties: The ability to alter some ties promotes cooperation in those that cannot be altered
The strength of dynamic ties: The ability to alter some ties promotes cooperation in those that cannot be altered Open
The presence of alterable ties in human social networks promotes cooperation even in ties that cannot be altered.
View article: Generosity pays: Selfish people have fewer children and earn less money.
Generosity pays: Selfish people have fewer children and earn less money. Open
Does selfishness pay in the long term? Previous research has indicated that being otherish rather than selfish has positive consequences for psychological well-being, physical health, and relationships. Here we instead examine the conseque…
View article: Cooperation, clustering, and assortative mixing in dynamic networks
Cooperation, clustering, and assortative mixing in dynamic networks Open
Significance Understanding the patterns and processes of human cooperation is of central scientific importance. Networks can promote cooperation when their existing or emergent topology allows conditional cooperators in the network to isol…
View article: Does Violent Protest Backfire? Testing a Theory of Public Reactions to Activist Violence
Does Violent Protest Backfire? Testing a Theory of Public Reactions to Activist Violence Open
How do people respond to violent political protest? The authors present a theory proposing that the use of violence leads the general public to view a protest group as less reasonable, a perception that reduces identification with the grou…
View article: The Roots of Reciprocity: Gratitude and Reputation in Generalized Exchange Systems
The Roots of Reciprocity: Gratitude and Reputation in Generalized Exchange Systems Open
Social scientists often study the flow of material and social support as generalized exchange systems. These systems are associated with an array of benefits to groups and communities, but their existence is problematic, because individual…
View article: Higher Inequality Increases the Gap in the Perceived Merit of the Rich and Poor
Higher Inequality Increases the Gap in the Perceived Merit of the Rich and Poor Open
The rewards people receive are often taken as indirect evidence of their merit. We outline an argument that addresses how the magnitude of macrolevel income inequalities affects perceptions of the distribution of merit in a society. We pro…
View article: Prosocial Orientation Alters Network Dynamics and Fosters Cooperation
Prosocial Orientation Alters Network Dynamics and Fosters Cooperation Open
View article: The Enforcement of Moral Boundaries Promotes Cooperation and Prosocial Behavior in Groups
The Enforcement of Moral Boundaries Promotes Cooperation and Prosocial Behavior in Groups Open
The threat of free-riding makes the marshalling of cooperation from group members a fundamental challenge of social life. Where classical social science theory saw the enforcement of moral boundaries as a critical way by which group member…