Simpson B., Eriksson K., Vartanova I. et al., American Sociological Review 2026 Vol. 0 No. 0 P. 1–22
Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data from more than 25,000 individuals across 90 societies, we test several hypotheses linking ...
Added: September 8, 2026
Petrov I., Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 2026
This paper studies a social-norm model in which agents choose effort in response to their own productivity and the efforts of their neighbours. We analyse how links between groups with different productivity levels affect equilibrium effort and derive the intergroup linking intensity that maximises aggregate effort. We work in a stylised two-group stochastic block setting ...
Added: August 30, 2026
Zhuravleva T., Afanasev K., Engelmann J. et al., / Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
Extortionary ("harassment") bribery can persist even when widely condemned, consistent with a coordination problem sustained by beliefs about what others do and what others consider acceptable. We study whether a minimal institutional featurethe presence of a third-party monitor empowered to punish-shifts (i) normative expectations about extortion and compliance and (ii) empirical expectations about their prevalence. ...
Added: July 22, 2026
Zhuravleva T., Afanasev K., Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 2026 Vol. 21 P. 661–683
Punishment plays a crucial role in driving norm change by incentivizing compliance with evolving shared normative expectations. Punitive measures typically encompass two components: a communicative effect, which delineates inappropriate conduct, and an institutionalized procedure that facilitates sanction enforcement. This study specifically investigates the latter dimension, examining how the mere existence of a punishment institution influences ...
Added: June 5, 2026
Arzumanyan N., Shestakova A., Moiseeva V. et al., FRONTIERS IN NUTRITION 2025
Non-communicable diseases are influenced by multiple genetic, physiological, environmental, and behavioral factors, with dietary sugar consumption representing one of the key modifiable risk determinants. Interventions aimed at reducing sugar intake often rely on persuasive health messaging by experts, yet it remains unclear whether the expertise of the narrator of the message is an indispensable component ...
Added: November 27, 2025
Baranski A., Geraldes D., Kovaliukaite A. et al., Management Science 2024 Vol. 70 No. 10 P. 6622–6636
Women are underrepresented in business, academic, and political decision-making bodies across the world. To investigate the causal effect of gender representation on multilateral negotiations, we experimentally manipulate the composition of triads in a majoritarian, divide-the-dollar game. We document a robust gender gap in earnings driven largely by the exclusion of women from alliances rather than ...
Added: November 14, 2025
Afanasev K., Zhuravleva T., Hannum C., Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination 2026 Vol. 21 P. 219–262
We are the first to examine the influence of empirical information on both actual behavior and normative expectations in the context of extortion. To this end, we conduct a laboratory experiment that involves a multi-round coordination game, in which participants receive information about the behavior of "officials" and "citizens" playing a harassment bribery game in ...
Added: November 13, 2025
Eriksson K., Strimling P., Vartanova I. et al., Communications psychology 2025 Vol. 3 P. 1–14
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 ...
Added: November 12, 2025
Shenkman E., Parshakov P., Matkin N., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2026 № 2(71) С. 177–203
This article analyzes the behavior of large language models (LLMs) in the Dictator game; the comparison was carried out against the results of previously conducted laboratory behavioral experiments with human participants. The study examines modifications of the basic game, that include the possibility of taking resources from the opponent as well as the introduction of ...
Added: October 27, 2025
Schindler S., Schuster C., Olsson M. . et al., British Journal of Social Psychology 2025 Vol. 64 No. 2 Article e12806
In the present work, we addressed the relationship between parental leave policies and social norms. Using a pre-registered, cross-national approach, we examined the relationship between parental leave policies and the perception of social norms for the gender division of childcare. In this study, 19,259 students (11,924 women) from 48 countries indicated the degree to which ...
Added: August 20, 2025
Andrighetto G., Szekely A., Guido A. et al., Nature Communications 2024 Vol. 15 Article 1436
The emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether social norms also changed. Specifically, we study this question for cultural tightness (the degree to which societies generally have strong norms), specific social norms (e.g. stealing, hand washing), and norms about enforcement, using survey data from 30,431 respondents in 43 ...
Added: November 30, 2024
Oksana Zinchenko, Alexey Gorin, Anush Revazyan et al., Neuroscience Letters 2023 Vol. 808 Article 137276
Human societies benefit from social norms that increase cooperation and support social order. Hence, the understanding of effective mechanisms enforcing norms is crucial. One of such mechanisms is “third-party punishment” (TPP) – a form of social punishment that could be delivered by a third-party, not directly affected by the actions of the norm violator. Previous ...
Added: July 3, 2023
Кузнецов П. П., Эктов П. В., Мелерзанов А. В., Врач 2021 № 6 С. 30–34
Lifestyle and eating behaviors play an important role in aging processes. It is not enough to develop only high-tech medical care to achieve significant results in increasing life expectancy in the population. Beyond that point, there should be a social policy that promotes the concept of reasonable prevention using up-to-date digital technologies for health monitoring. ...
Added: February 13, 2023
Zamyatina N., Региональные исследования 2015 № 2 С. 4–14
Роль культуры в социально-экономическом развитии территории определяется ее тесными связями с другими аспектами человеческой деятельности: культура определяет мировоззрение и легитимирует определенные модели поведения, в том числе экономические. Соответственно, географические различия в социально-экономических процессах формируются, в числе прочего, в результате пространственных различий в доминирующих культурных установках. Культура влияет на социально-экономическое развитие как на макрорегиональном, так и ...
Added: November 14, 2022
Fogelson Y. B., Osteuroparecht 2022 Vol. 68 No. 3 P. 384–405
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Fogelson Y. B., Сравнительное конституционное обозрение 2022 № 6 С. 132–168
Citizens' trust in their legal system is central to the rule of law. This article continues the study of the social history of law and its influence on trust in law in various societies, begun in our joint with D.Yu. Poldnikov's article on the social history of various legal systems. Here the social history of ...
Added: October 2, 2022
Fabrykant M., Magun V., International Journal of Comparative Sociology 2024 Vol. 65 No. 2 P. 154–175
This article examines cross-country differences in the strength of individuals’ belief that their country is better than most others and the dependence of this belief on their country’s performance in various spheres. The research design consists of a series of multilevel ordinal logistic regression models estimated using the data of the most recent thematic wave ...
Added: August 10, 2022
Parfenova A., Maria Kozlova, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 2023 Vol. 43 No. 5/6 P. 569–585
This research is devoted to the study of social expectations, and the purpose of this paper is to elaborate the instrument of their measurement based on the main spheres of influence. The research was conducted using a mixed methodology: a series of semi-structured interviews and a survey. In the first stage, 15 interviews were conducted ...
Added: July 5, 2022
Ojedokun O., Henschel N., Boehnke K. et al., Waste Management 2022 Vol. 142 P. 19–28
Guided by the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study investigates littering attitudes, social norms, and perceived behavioural control as predictors of the intention to prevent littering and actual littering prevention behaviour among residents of a developing country (Nigeria). The study employed a survey questionnaire to collect cross-sectional data. By applying structural equation modelling it was ...
Added: March 4, 2022
Tolvanen J., Tremewan J., Wagner A., American Political Science Review 2022 Vol. 116 No. 2 P. 734–750
This paper studies, theoretically and experimentally, a model of electoral competition which allows for platforms where candidates may be ambiguous about which policy they will implement if elected. We argue that uncertainty about the policy preferences of the electorate, combined with perceived similarity of voters and candidates, can lead to the latter running on these ...
Added: October 18, 2021
Schlag K., Tremewan J., van der Weele J., Experimental Economics 2015 Vol. 18 No. 3 P. 457–490
Incentivized methods for eliciting subjective probabilities in economic experiments present the subject with risky choices that encourage truthful reporting. We discuss the most prominent elicitation methods and their underlying assumptions, provide theoretical comparisons and give a new justification for the quadratic scoring rule. On the empirical side, we survey the performance of these elicitation methods ...
Added: October 11, 2021
Krysowski E., Tremewan J., Economic Inquiry 2021 Vol. 59 No. 2 P. 776–789
In a laboratory experiment we investigate whether bad behavior in anonymous environments results from more lenient social norms or a reduction in the size of the role played by social norms in decision-making. We elicit social norms in two dictator games with different levels of anonymity, estimate subjects' willingness-to-pay to adhere to norms, and test ...
Added: October 11, 2021
Schlag K., Tremewan J., Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 2021 Vol. 62 P. 137–155
We present a method for eliciting beliefs about probabilities when multiple realisations of an outcome are available, the “frequency” method. The method is applicable for any reasonable utility function. Unlike existing techniques that account for deviations from risk-neutrality, this method is highly transparent to subjects and easy to implement. Rather than identifying point beliefs these ...
Added: October 8, 2021