A new mathematical model suggests that social norms may be just as important as economics in determining how the world ...

Loneliness is defined as “a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception that one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships.” ...

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (Japan) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Germany) have published new findings on how social norms evolve over time.

An interdisciplinary team of researchers reports on how social norms -- 'patterns of behaviors or values that depend on expectations about what others do and/or think should be done' -- can be ...

In behavioral research, it is largely assumed that people adapt their personal behavior to match the behavior of a reference group. A distinction is made between descriptive norms—the assumption that ...

Social rules and norms drift and morph as humans adapt to environmental change and the unending stream of new technologies. Over the years, a new set of unwritten rules has quietly taken over how we ...

Information, guidance, and tools for practitioners who seek to integrate social norms and behavioral change approaches into ...

The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention will held a 2-day public workshop on October 29-30, 2015 to explore the cultural and social norms that underlie the acceptance of ...

Social media users have organically grown less concerned about privacy over time, according to the creator of Facebook ...