Measuring norms using social survey data

Measuring Social Norms and Preferences Using Experimental Games: A Guide for Social Scientists

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Measuring social distance using indirectly observed network data∗

Aggregated Relational Data (ARD), or “How many X’s do you know?” questions, are an increasingly common tool for learning about social networks through standard surveys. Recent statistical advances (Zheng et al. (2006), for example) present social scientists with new options for analyzing such data. In this paper, we present guidelines for learning about network processes and a template to aid p...

Implementing Injunctive Social Norms Using Defeasible Reasoning

Believability requires video game characters to consider their actions within the context of social norms. Social norms involve a broad range of behavioral defaults, obligations, and injunctions unrelated to strictly causal reasoning. Defeasible reasoning involves rationally compelling but deductively invalid arguments, such as reasoning with rules that allow exceptions. This paper investigates...

Measuring Interval Efficiency in Convex Hull of Data Using DEA

Social Norms

Social norms and customs shape many economic decisions, but they have not always been at the forefront of economic analysis. Indeed, social influences were more prominently acknowledged by the founders of the discipline than by neoclassical theorists of the last century. J.S. Mill, for example, argued that custom was a potent force in setting the terms of contracts and also the wages paid to la...