A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding ...

Social norms shift as potential beachgoers stay home. A view of the empty Santa Monica beach at sunset due to the new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Santa Monica, United States on March 27, 2020.

Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community's norms are looser. In turn, norm violations ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, HEC Montréal, and University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that performs a meta-analysis of ...

New research links perceived lack of traditional values to stereotypes portraying sexual minorities and Black men as younger, while other studies show moral diversity loosens social norms and a simple ...

Building on a post that looked at times in which media influenced real-world behaviors, we will reflect below on why this can happen through a constellation of theories. 1. Social Learning Theory.

Shared expectations about standards of behavior for directors can strengthen the internal culture and effectiveness of the board of directors. Board culture — the shared values, beliefs, assumptions, ...

Children across the globe engage in a constellation of behaviors that support cooperation, an action critical to the survival of the human species, a team of Boston College researchers report today in ...

Over the past several years, proponents of space security have stated that norms of responsible behavior will help “protect,” “defend,” and “deter” attacks upon U.S. and allied critical space systems.

HOUSTON—As the push to return to deep-space exploration becomes more international and commercial, so too do concerns over norms of behavior among those who venture beyond Earth’s orbit. Two ...

Scientific norms are guidelines for how scientists are expected to behave. A researcher who violates one of these norms won't be carted off to jail or fined an exorbitant fee. But when a norm is not ...