Norm dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social norm emergence, persistence, and change

MJ Gelfand, S Gavrilets, N Nunn - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

Cultural bias and cultural alignment of large language models

Y Tao, O Viberg, RS Baker, RF Kizilcec - PNAS nexus, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Culture fundamentally shapes people's reasoning, behavior, and communication. As people
increasingly use generative artificial intelligence (AI) to expedite and automate personal and …

Which humans?

M Atari, MJ Xue, PS Park, D Blasi, J Henrich - 2023 - osf.io
Large language models (LLMs) have recently made vast advances in both generating and
analyzing textual data. Technical reports often compare LLMs' outputs with “human” …

Lying in online social networks: a bug or a feature

M Maddah, P Esmaeilzadeh - Journal of Information, Communication …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Online social networks can bridge the gap between distant individuals by
simulating online experiences that closely resemble physical interactions. While people …

Language matters: how normative expressions shape norm perception and affect norm compliance

J Kuang, C Bicchieri - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Previous studies have used various normative expressions such as 'should','appropriate'and
'approved'interchangeably to communicate injunctions and social norms. However, little is …

Strategic behavior with tight, loose, and polarized norms

E Dimant, M Gelfand, A Hochleitner… - Management …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Descriptive norms, the behavior of other individuals in one's reference group, play a key role
in shaping individual decisions in managerial contexts and beyond. Organizations are …

[HTML][HTML] The limits to moral erosion in markets: Social norms and the replacement excuse

B Bartling, Y Özdemir - Games and Economic Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper studies the impact of a key feature of competitive markets on moral behavior: the
possibility that a competitor might step in and conclude the deal if a conscientious market …

Commitment to honesty oaths decreases dishonesty, but commitment to another individual does not affect dishonesty

JH Zickfeld, KA Ścigała, A Weiss, J Michael… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Social commitment influences our behavior in various ways. Recent studies suggest that
social commitment to other individuals or groups can increase dishonest behavior while …

[HTML][HTML] Motivated information acquisition and social norm formation

E Dimant, F Galeotti, MC Villeval - European Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate how individuals select sources of information about peers' behavior and
normative views, and the influence of this social information on individual behavior and both …

Evolutionary dynamics of direct and indirect reciprocity on networked populations

H Wei, J Zhang, C Zhang - Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 2024 - Elsevier
Direct, indirect and network reciprocity are key mechanisms fostering cooperation in
societies. Though intrinsically interrelated, they are often studied separately. Unravelling the …