All human societies are permeated by collectively shared entities that govern daily social
interactions and promote coordination and cooperation: norms. While the study of norm …

Human behavior is heavily influenced by social norms. But when and how do norms persist
or change? Complementing work on the role of top-down factors in the enforcement of …

Group norms are necessary for navigating the social world, but they also constrain how we
think about individuals. This manuscript progresses in three parts, along the way integrating …

When seeking to explain social regularities (such as gender differences in the labor market)
people often rely on internal features of the targets, frequently neglecting structural and …

Cooperative societies rely on reward and punishment for norm enforcement. We examined
the developmental origin of these interventions in the context of distributive fairness: past …

Research has probed the consequences of providing people with different types of
information regarding why a person possesses a certain characteristic. However, this work …

Nonconformity––the act of deviating from established norms and expectations of one's
group––is often evaluated negatively, despite its potential benefits for society. Three …

The present research examined children's generalisations about people based on their
decisions to conform to descriptive norms. This issue was examined in South Korea, where …

Young children favor what they perceive as normative behavior and people who act in
normative ways. This preference for normativity could negatively affect non‐autistic …

Imitation plays an important role in human social life. In this chapter, we focus on a subset of
imitation we refer to as socially-oriented imitation, or for short “social imitation.” Social …