Conditions and Effects of Norm Internalization

Batzke, Marlene; Ernst, Andreas T.

doi:10.18564/jasss.5003

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“…Social norms were assumed to be adapted quickly whenever the social situation changes, while personal norms were expected to change more slowly and gradually, depending not only on situational but also on personal factors (cf. Batzke and Ernst, 2023b). To investigate the assumed differences, participants played a repeated prisoner's dilemma game with artificial co-players.…”

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“…Hence, individuals not only perceive and tend to conform to social norms, but also develop their own personal norms, a concept most notably known by the work of Schwartz (1977;Schwartz andHoward, 1981, 1982). Personal norms can be defined as individuals' beliefs about (in)appropriate behavior in a specific situation (Batzke and Ernst, 2023b). Thus, personal norms are of an injunctive quality.…”

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“…While many of them conceptualize norms as social level phenomena of behavioral convergence (e.g., Axelrod, 1986;Sen and Airiau, 2007), fewer focused on norm change within the individual, which demands for representing norms as mental objects that artificial agents can deliberate upon (e.g., Dignum, 1999;Castelfranchi et al, 2000;Villatoro et al, 2015). Batzke and Ernst (2023b) introduced the idea of different norm learning processes possessing different temporal dynamics, meaning that they occur at different rates of change (see also Batzke and Ernst, 2022). Whereas social norm learning is presumably merely based on observation, it was assumed a fast adaptation process with a high rate of change.…”

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Distinguishing fast change in social norms and slow change in personal norms in cooperative decision-making

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Psychological research on norms has shown that norms are highly relevant for individuals’ decision-making. Yet, there is so far little understanding of how norms change over time. Knowledge about how norms change may help better understanding their potential for as well as limitations in guiding decision-making and changing behavior. The present work investigated change in individuals’ cooperation norms. As an indicator of different underlying processes of norm change, the temporal dynamics of different types of norms were examined. It was assumed that participants’ social norms are adapted quickly whenever the social situation changes, while personal norms change more slowly and gradually, abstracting part of the situational learning in interaction with one’s personality. In an experimental study, participants played a repeated prisoner’s dilemma game with artificial co-players representing a predominantly cooperative or uncooperative social setting, depending on the experimental condition. The condition was expected to affect slow learning of personal norms. Additionally, the cooperativeness of the social setting was varied repeatedly within conditions, expected to result in fast changes in social norms. Participants’ personal and social norms were assessed throughout the game. As predicted, the temporal dynamics differed between norms with social norms changing quickly and personal norms more slowly. Personal norms strongly predicted behavioral decision-making and were predicted by situational and personality factors. Potential qualitative differences of the underlying norm change processes are discussed.

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