Norm dynamics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social norm emergence, persistence, and change

MJ Gelfand, S Gavrilets, N Nunn - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

Do social media undermine social cohesion? A critical review

S González‐Bailón, Y Lelkes - Social Issues and Policy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate the empirical evidence interrogating the question of whether social media
erodes social cohesion. We look at how networks, information exchange, and norms operate …

Psychology as a historical science

M Muthukrishna, J Henrich… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Psychology has traditionally seen itself as the science of universal human cognition, but it
has only recently begun seriously grappling with cross-cultural variation. Here we argue that …

A 3D framework of implicit attitude change

B Kurdi, TES Charlesworth - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2023 - cell.com
According to early theories, implicit (automatic) social attitudes are difficult if not impossible
to change. Although this view has recently been challenged by research relying on …

The golden age of social science

A Buyalskaya, M Gallo… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Social science is entering a golden age, marked by the confluence of explosive growth in
new data and analytic methods, interdisciplinary approaches, and a recognition that these …

Mechanisms upholding the persistence of stigma across 100 years of historical text

TES Charlesworth, ML Hatzenbuehler - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Today, many social groups face negative stereotypes. Is such negativity a stable feature of
society and, if so, what mechanisms maintain stability both within and across group targets …

Collective patterns of social diffusion are shaped by individual inertia and trend-seeking

M Ye, L Zino, Ž Mlakar, JW Bolderdijk… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Social conventions change when individuals collectively adopt an alternative over the status
quo, in a process known as social diffusion. Our repeated trials of a multi-round experiment …

Psychological science in the wake of COVID-19: Social, methodological, and metascientific considerations

DL Rosenfeld, E Balcetis, B Bastian… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from
what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies psychologists can …

Cultural evolution of genetic heritability

R Uchiyama, R Spicer… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Behavioral genetics and cultural evolution have both revolutionized our understanding of
human behavior–largely independent of each other. Here, we reconcile these two fields …

Anatomy of a psychological theory: Integrating construct-validation and computational-modeling methods to advance theorizing

I Grahek, M Schaller, JL Tackett - … on Psychological Science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Discussions about the replicability of psychological studies have primarily focused on
improving research methods and practices, with less attention paid to the role of well …