Social norm change: drivers and consequences

Author:

Andrighetto Giulia1ORCID,Gavrilets Sergey2ORCID,Gelfand Michele3ORCID,Mace Ruth4ORCID,Vriens Eva1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Rome 00185, Italy

2. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1610, USA

3. Graduate School of Business and Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

4. Department of Anthropology, University College London, London WC1H 0BW, UK

Abstract

Social norms research is booming. In recent years, several experts have recommended using social norms (unwritten rules that prescribe what people ought or ought not to do) to confront the societal, environmental and health challenges our societies face. If we are to do so, a better understanding is required of how social norms themselves emerge, evolve and respond to these challenges. Social norms have long been used as post hoc explanations of behaviour or are seen as stable social constructs. Yet norms evolve dynamically with the changing group processes (e.g. political polarization, kinship structures) and societal challenges (e.g. pandemics, climate change) for which they are presented as solutions. The Theme Issue ‘Social norm change: drivers and consequences' contains 14 contributions that present state-of-the-art approaches to understand what generates social norm change and how this impacts our societies. Contributions give insight into (i) the identification of norms, norm change and their effect on behaviour; (ii) drivers and consequences of spontaneous norm change; and (iii) how norm change can be engineered to promote desired behavioural change. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Social norm change: drivers and consequences’.

Publisher

The Royal Society

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