Behavioral norms are key ingredients that allow agent coordination where societal laws do not sufficiently constrain agent behaviors. Whereas social laws need to be enforced in a top-down manner, norms evolve in a bottom-up manner and are typically more self-enforcing. While effective norms can significantly enhance performance of individual agents and agent societies, there has been little wor...

Social exclusion of those who challenge group norms was investigated by asking children and adolescents, adolescents, age 9–13 years (N = 381), to evaluate exclusion of group members who deviated from group norms. Testing predictions from social reasoning developmental theories of group-based exclusion, children and adolescents evaluated exclusion based on group norms involving allocation of re...

this paper seeks to answer the question whether the constitutional revolution of 1905-1911 in iran was a democratic revolution or social revolution? this discussion has been explained from the view point of the political sociology, relying on the moore's theory. studies indicate that the constitutional revolution in all periods has had the features of democratic revolution for the followin...

The concept of issuance revolution is synonymous with the expansion of revolution that it was considered by Imam at at beginning of the revolution. Before the revolution western countries's effort and program involved in the dried roots of Islam in different countries and reduced the concepts and doctorins of it. Because of this the most important influence of Islamic revolution was. Series of ...

in this research, we have investigated the relationship between psychological and social factors and green consumer behavior in tehran. with a sample size of 316, we have examined 15 hypotheses. the positive significant relationship between environmental attitudes, personal norms, perceived consumer effectiveness, and social (injunctive) norms with green consumer behavior dimensions (green purc...

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...

Dear Participant, We are very pleased to welcome you at the GATE research institute. This workshop aims at developing scientific discussions about Social Norms and Moral Norms. The objective is to better understand when people are more, or less, likely to act honestly and follow the moral course of action and norms instead of serving their strict self-interest at the others' expense. We are ext...