… those who want to understand conventions as norms or norms as conventions. What makes
the conventions-as-norms thesis and the norms-as-conventions thesis interesting for our …

… Thankfully, through experience, we learn norms and conventions that provide stable … on
rapidly adapting pre-existing norms to the local context. Hence, norms are shaped by complex …

… -theoretic account according to which a convention or a norm is broadly defined as a …
conventions, but social norms, too, can be thought of as equilibria. Since it is an equilibrium, a norm …

The problem of this paper is the discovery of criteria to identify conventions and the
description of some of the more general properties of conventions with particular reference to …

… social conventions and how they are being applied on the Internet. We begin with a brief
outline of the role that norms and conventions … relate to real-world conventions, how they aim to …

… This entry defines and distinguishes the concepts of convention and norm. Both terms
refer to behavioral regularities. Lewis (1969) provisionally (and roughly) defined a …

… If the differentiation between morality and convention is … , whereas disobedience of “conventions”
will be considered … of conventions will be perceived as bad (in the event of a norm …

… of norms as cognitive objects is applied to establish connections between social conventions
… The emergence of norms will be here seen as intrinsically intertwined with the emergence …

… To test our hypothesis that conventions beget social norms, we test whether (1) a convention
… empirical consensus around the convention, and (3) adherence to and deviations from the …

… the entire account of conventions before turning to the account of norms. This approach has
… of norms makes use of the account of conventions because the selection of norms poses a …