One approach to changing society: change people’s explanatory theories. Another: change community norms. The former might take 10 minutes, the latter 10 years

In this new blog post, I consider the hypothesis that brief interventions to change theories basically don’t work

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Thanks to Jack Goncalo for editing and Yin for being great and also putting up with my continued lack of use of a reference manager (I know, I know). 4/4

What kind of norm information is most influential? Current evidence offers only an incomplete answer. Consider two possible patterns below, both of which have some support in prior work. 3/4

The most interesting part of the paper (to me) is considering the different forms of norm information available to people and how they might differently weight each one in their perceptions. 2/4

A theoretical framework for social norm perception How do individuals learn and perceive social norms across situations and groups? We propose a three-stage process of social norm perception in which i…

New research by me and my doctoral student Yin Li! In this ROB we outline a three-step framework for how individuals perceive social norms & integrate work across psychology, sociology, economics, cognitive science and applied fields. 1/4
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