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Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures
Eriksson, K.; Strimling, P.; Vartanova, I.; Simpson, B.; Persson, M.; Abdi, K. A.; Ad, N.; Aldashev, A.; Ali, H. M.; Alì, M.; Aliyev, K.; Choi, H.-S.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 more permissive norms in general or for certain behaviors, or for certain behaviors in specific situations. In a preregistered survey of 25,422 participants across 90 societies...
Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especial...
Andersson, P. A.; Vartanova, I.; Västfjäll, D.; Tinghög, G.; Strimling, P.; Wu, J.; Hazin, I.; Akotia, C. S.; Aldashev, A.; Andrighetto, G.; Anum, A.When someone violates a social norm, others may think that some sanction would be appropriate. We examine how the experience of emotions like anger and disgust relate to the judged appropriateness of sanctions, in a pre-registered analysis of data from a large-scale study in 56 societies. Across the world, we find that individuals who experience anger and disgust over a norm violation are more likely to endorse...
Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies
Eriksson, K.; Strimling, P.; Gelfand, M.; Junhui Wu; Abernathy, J.; Akotia, C. S.; Aldashev, A.; Andersson, P. A.; Andrighetto, G.; Anum, A.; Arikan, G.Norm enforcement may be important for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation. However, little is known about how preferred responses to norm violations vary across cultures and across domains. In a preregistered study of 57 countries (using convenience samples of 22,863 students and non-students), we measured perceptions of the appropriateness of various responses to a violation of a cooperative norm and...
Social mindfulness and prosociality vary across the globe
Van Doesum, N. J.; Murphy, R. O.; Gallucci, M.; Aharonov-Majar, E.; Athenstaedt, U.; Au, W. T.; Bai, L.; Böhm, R.; Bovina, I.; Buchan, N. R.Humans are social animals, but not everyone will be mindful of others to the same extent. Individual differences have been found, but would social mindfulness also be shaped by one's location in the world? Expecting cross-national differences to exist, we examined if and how social mindfulness differs across countries. At little to no material cost, social mindfulness typically entails small acts of attention o...