The grammar of society: the nature and dynamics of social norms

By Cristina Bicchieri. 2005

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Subfields: Safety Research, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Sacrifice One For the Good of Many? People Apply Different Moral Norms to Human and Robot Agents (2015, neutral): “Without morality, society could not exist [1]–[4].”
Nudges, Social Norms, and Permanence in Agri-environmental Schemes (2015, background): “Bicchieri (2006) considers that people are influenced by their subjective beliefs about what others do and think, rather than by the actual behavior and opinions of others.”
Social Norms: A Review (2016, neutral): “Arguably, individuals will only follow such rules if they perceive that the majority of the population also follows the same guidelines, and if doing so seems to be the optimal choice for the individual (Bicchieri, 2005).”
Affirming the Strengths in Men: A Positive Masculinity Approach to Assisting Male Clients (2013, background): “Social norms theory (Bicchieri, 2006) suggests that educating men about the large number of men who seek help is the best way to encourage men to ask for help.”
Evolutionary accounts of belief in supernatural punishment: a critical review (2011, background): “3 The threat to cooperation from uncertainty is commonplace (Bicchieri, 2006) and it is not always solved (Ostrom, 2005).”
Incomplete Contracting and AI Alignment (2018, neutral): “g out this task? Some of these rules might come in the form of cultural norms–classiﬁcations that arise as emergent features from repeated interaction 10 and discussion among participants in a group (Bicchieri, 2006; Wiessner, 2005; Hadﬁeld, 2017). Others of these rules are the product of formal dis”
Jules or Jim: Alternative Conformity to Minority Logics (2012, background): “First, conformity is a conditional process (Bicchieri, 2005; Thornton & Ocasio, 2008: 106): as environments’ and organizations’ characteristics vary, so will organizational propensities to conform to dominant or minor resource suppliers’ requirements.”
Value Alignment or Misalignment - What Will Keep Systems Accountable? (2017, background): “Norms thread through ethical decision-making in complex ways in terms of ethical theory, because they are neither ironclad rules, nor utilities, nor even prescribed rituals (Bicchieri 2005).”
Contagion of pro- and anti-social behavior among peers and the role of social proximity (2019, background): “Because a norm is a collective belief about expected behavior, behavior is more informative if learned from someone who is like oneself (Bicchieri, 2006).”
On the Machine Learning of Ethical Judgments from Natural Language (2022, neutral): “Ethical judgments are dynamic (Bicchieri, 2005).”
Why do people tell the truth? Experimental evidence for pure lie aversion (2013, background): “, to lie (c.f. Cialdini, Reno, and Kallgren, 1990; Bicchieri, 2005; López-Pérez, 2012).”
Behaving as Expected: Public Information and Fairness Norms (2010, positive): “In what follows we adopt a definition of norms that is grounded upon individuals’ preferences and expectations (Bicchieri, 2006, p.11).”