An Explication of Social Norms

By Maria Knight Lapinski, Rajiv N. Rimal. 2005

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Meta-analytic evidence for the persuasive effect of narratives on beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors (2016, background): “This longstanding distinction (Morris, 1956) remains part of contemporary theories of norms (Lapinski & Rimal, 2005).”
Social influence approaches to encourage resource conservation: A meta-analysis (2013, background): “A number of factors may influence the effectiveness of descriptive social norms on behaviour change (Lapinski and Rimal, 2005), such as the extent to which descriptive and injunctive norms are in alignment (for a study on the effect of norm alignment on environmental intentions, see Smith et al.”
Understanding Scientists’ Willingness to Engage (2018, background): “The current study considers two types of normative beliefs (Lapinski & Rimal, 2005), including what scientists think their colleagues are doing (i.e., Besley et al. 567 descriptive norms) and what they think their colleagues would support (i.e., injunctive or subjective norms).”
A Re‐Explication of Social Norms, Ten Years Later (2015, background): “Ten years ago, we published an article (Lapinski & Rimal, 2005) in this journal that described normative influences through a communication lens.”
From normative influence to social pressure: how relevant others affect whether bystanders join in cyberbullying (2016, background): “…norms, are driven by an individual’s perception of what most (relevant) others do in a particular situation, while the second category, the ‘ought’ or injunctive norms, are informed by what (relevant) others approve or disapprove of (Lapinski & Rimal, 2005; Reno, Cialdini, & Kallgren, 1993).”
Norms of online expressions of emotion: Comparing Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and WhatsApp (2017, positive): “Norms are argued to be a driver of many social behaviors (Lapinski and Rimal, 2005).”
Normative beliefs, attitudes, and social norms: People reduce waste as an index of social relationships when spending leisure time (2017, background): “Therefore, we enforced one of the Asian empirical and normative expectations to be formed their motive actions in the model of “social norms” (see the definitions of Rimal and Lapinski, and see also Bicchieri, p. 41) [27,28].”
Risk Information Seeking and Processing Model (2015, neutral): “Many scholars employ norms that reflect the risk behaviors they seek to modify, whether recycling or avoiding texting while driv ing (Lapinski & Rimal, 2005; Rimal & Real, 2005).”
Social norms and pro-environmental behavior: A review of the evidence (2017, background): “Lapinski and Rimal (2005) propose a Theory of Normative Behavior in which the relationship between descriptive norms and behavior is modi ﬁ ed by injunctive norms, outcome expectations (which appear to be equivalent to perceived ef ﬁ cacy in the Theory of Planned Behavior), the relevance of the…”