Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures
Abstrak
Abstract Every social situation that people encounter in their daily lives comes with a set of unwritten rules about what behavior is considered appropriate or inappropriate. These everyday norms can vary across societies: some societies may have more permissive norms in general or for certain behaviors, or for certain behaviors in specific situations. In a preregistered survey of 25,422 participants across 90 societies, we map societal differences in 150 everyday norms and show that they can be explained by how societies prioritize individualizing moral foundations such as care and liberty versus binding moral foundations such as purity. Specifically, societies with more individualistic morality tend to have more permissive norms in general (greater liberty) and especially for behaviors deemed vulgar (less purity), but they exhibit less permissive norms for behaviors perceived to have negative consequences in specific situations (greater care). By comparing our data with available data collected twenty years ago, we find a global pattern of change toward more permissive norms overall but less permissive norms for the most vulgar and inconsiderate behaviors. This study explains how social norms vary across behaviors, situations, societies, and time.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (164)
Kimmo Eriksson
Pontus Strimling
Irina Vartanova
Brent Simpson
Minna Persson
Khalid Ahmed Abdi
Neta Ad
Alisher Aldashev
Habib Mohammad Ali
Maurizio Alì
Khatai Aliyev
Yasser M. H. A. Alrefaee
Alberth Estuardo Alvarado Ortiz
Per A. Andersson
Giulia Andrighetto
Gizem Arikan
John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta
Christian Lutete Ayikwa
Jonatan Baños-Chaparro
Davide Barrera
Justina Barsyte
Birzhan Batkeyev
Azma Batool
Elizaveta Berezina
Stéphanie Ngandu Bimina
Marie Björnstjerna
Sheyla Blumen
Paweł Boski
Eva Boštjančič
Yap Boum
Marie Briguglio
Kagonbe Bruno
Huyen Thi Thu Bui
Tomás Caycho-Rodríguez
Yanyan Chen
Manase Kudzai Chiweshe
Hoon-Seok Choi
Carlos C. Contreras-Ibáñez
Dinka Čorkalo
Christian E. Cruz-Torres
Andrea Czakó
Piyanjali de Zoysa
Zsolt Demetrovics
Bojana M. Dinić
Saša Drače
Rita W. El-Haddad
Jan B. Engelmann
Ignacio Escudero Pérez
Hyun Euh
Xia Fang
Celine Frank
Esteban Freidin
Marta Fulop
Vladimer Gamsakhurdia
Mauro Alberto García Jiménez
Ragna B. Gardarsdottir
Alin Gavreliuc
Colin Mathew Hugues D. Gill
Biljana Gjoneska
Andreas Glöckner
Sylvie Graf
Ani Grigoryan
Katarzyna Growiec
Brian W. Haas
Geoffrey Haddock
Stavros P. Hadjisolomou
Nina Hadžiahmetović
Mohammad Hosein Haji Mohammad Ali
Eemeli Hakoköngäs
Peter Halama
Given Hapunda
Andree Hartanto
Mahsa Hazrati
Boris Christian Herbas-Torrico
Szilárd Holka
Martina Hřebíčková
John A. Hunter
Moudachirou Ibikounle
Dzintra Ilisko
Harpa Lind Hjördísar Jónsdóttir
Zivile Kaminskiene
Hansika Kapoor
Iva Kapović
Gassemi Karim
Kerry Kawakami
Narine Khachatryan
Julian B. Kirschner
Jonah Kiruja
Toko Kiyonari
Michal Kohút
Shazia Kousar
Besnik Krasniqi
Ludovic Lado
Miguel Landa-Blanco
Barbara Landon
Žan Lep
Lisa M. Leslie
Yang Li
Kadi Liik
Ming-Jen Lin
Marlon Elías Lobos Rivera
Wilson López-López
Edona Maloku
Mohona Mandal
Bernardo Ananias Manhique
Nathan Mpeti Mbende
Imed Medhioub
Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira
J. Paola Merchán Tamayo
Linda Lila Mohammed
Schontal N. Moore
Bahar Moraligil
Nijat Muradzada
Herwin Nanda
Ekaterina Nastina
Pegah Nejat
Daniel Nettle
Orlando Julio Andre Nipassa
Martin Noe-Grijalva
Pie Ntampaka
Rodrigue Ntone
Ravit Nussinson
Milan Oljača
Nneoma G. Onyedire
Ike E. Onyishi
Penny Panagiotopoulou
Daybel Pañellas Alvarez
Md. Shahin Parvez
Gian Luca Pasin
Ivana Pedović
Pablo Pérez de León
Lorena R. Perez Floriano
Nada Pop-Jordanova
Jose Roberto Portillo
Angela Potang
Adolfo Quesada-Román
Jana L. Raver
Ricardo B. Rodrigues
Juan Diego Rodríguez-Romero
Sara Romanò
Robert M. Ross
Nachita Rosun
Selka Sadiković
Alvaro San Martin
Snežana Smederevac
Sarah Jane Smith
Natalia Soboleva
Daniel Erena Sonessa
Samantha K. Stanley
Kristina Stoyanova
Drozdstoy Stoyanov
Kosuke Takemura
John Thøgersen
Habib Tiliouine
Hans Tung
Tungalag Ulambayar
Elze Marija Uzdavinyte
Randall Waechter
Yi-Ting Wang
Junhui Wu
Brice Martial Yambio
Eric Yankson
Kuang-Hui Yeh
Paul A. M. Van Lange
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.1038/s44271-025-00324-4
- Akses
- Open Access ✓