Editorial: Dealing with Contemporary Issues in Psychology: Respecting the Unwritten Rules

Social Psychology of Prejudice: Historical and Contemporary Issues

Sex, Power and Consent: Youth Culture and the Unwritten Rules

Active Rules in the Semantic Web: Dealing with Language Heterogeneity

In the same way as the “static” Semantic Web deals with data model and language heterogeneity and semantics that lead to RDF and OWL, there is language heterogeneity and the need for a semantical account concerning Web dynamics. Thus, generic rule markup has to bridge these discrepancies, i.e., allow for composition of component languages, retaining their distinguished semantics and making them...

Unwritten rules: virtual bargaining underpins social interaction, culture, and society

Many social interactions require humans to coordinate their behavior across a range of scales. However, aspects of intentional coordination remain puzzling from within several approaches in cognitive science. Sketching a new perspective, we propose that the complex behavioral patterns - or 'unwritten rules' - governing such coordination emerge from an ongoing process of 'virtual bargaining'. So...

Editorial: Psychology and Policy

Editorial on the Research Topic Psychology and Policy Policies are population interventions aimed at guiding choices and behaviors to achieve a desired, repeated outcome. They involve sets of decisions, and standards used by a group when dealing with significant or common—or both—challenges. These scenarios typically require standardized approaches to ensure the most ideal outcome, whether quan...