Norms and Beliefs: How Change Occurs

Bicchieri, Cristina; Mercier, Hugo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05308-0_3

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“…Finally, empirical messages may be ineffective because people tend to reject information that is inconsistent with their beliefs. Bicchieri and Mercier (2014) point out how the more central and entrenched a belief is, the more difficult it is to dislodge it. Being informed that most people in one's neighborhood recycle may have no effect on someone who is convinced that recycling pollutes the environment.…”

Section: Norm-nudgesmentioning

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Nudging with Care: The Risks and Benefits of Social Information

Bicchieri

2019

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Norms and nudges are both popular types of interventions. Recent years have seen the rise of 'norm-nudges'-nudges whose mechanism of action relies on social norms, eliciting or changing social expectations. Norm-nudges can be powerful interventions, but they can easily fail to be effective and can even backfire unless they are designed with care. We highlight important considerations when designing norm-nudges and discuss a general model of social behavior based on expectations and conditional preferences. We present the results of several experiments where norm-nudging can backfire, and ways to avoid these negative outcomes.

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Section: Norm-nudgesmentioning

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“…How to change such (often wrong) beliefs is a topic of great interest in the literature (Bicchieri and Mercier, 2014), a topic we discuss in Section 4. Often we see a combination of non-social beliefs and social expectations, and we need to disentangle their respective influence on the target behavior.…”

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Nudging with Care: The Risks and Benefits of Social Information

Bicchieri

2019

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“…The following norms removal description is adapted from a research work by Bicchieri [21] about changing norms and believes. Fig.…”

Section: Norm Removal In Social Sciencementioning

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Modeling norms removal in open normative multi-agent system

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Ahmad

Tang

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2014 International Conference on Computational Science and Technology (ICCST)

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Norms of negative consequences might be practiced in a society for a long time. These norms are mostly related to strong beliefs that prevent individuals from violating or abandoning them. In this case, these norms must be removed to reach a stable and benevolent society. Negative norms removal is presented in social science as a part of society evolution, yet it is not modeled in normative multi-agent systems. Norm removal in social science is done in two main stages. The first stage is called collective belief change. The second stage is called collective action. In this paper, we model these two stages into five processes which are, norm negativity realization, collective belief change, norm removal decision, choosing removal monitoring authority, and removal process. When the five stages are completed, agents make their own decision either to delete or not to delete the norm from their cognitive structure depending on their internal system status.

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“…Young people can motivate their peers or inspire successive generations (Vaisey & Lizardo 2016). Indeed, broader socio-normative changes often do arise in just this way, through the gradual diffusion of ideas and practices from local contexts outwards (Kincaid 2004, Bicchieri & Mercier 2014. That is, the best solution for a collective action problem is for someone to step up and do the right thing (Willer 2009).…”

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Resistance as Sacrifice: Towards an Ascetic Antiracism

al‐Gharbi

2019

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Often described as an outcome, inequality is better understood as a social process: a function of how institutions are structured and reproduced, and the ways people act and interact within them across time. Racialized inequality persists because it is enacted moment to moment, context to context-and it can be ended should those who currently perpetuate it commit themselves to playing a different role instead. This essay makes three core contributions: first, it highlights a disturbing parity between the people who are most rhetorically committed to ending racialized inequality and those who are most responsible for its persistence. Next, it explores the origin of this paradoxhow it is that ostensibly antiracist intentions are transmuted into 'benevolently racist' actions. Finally, it presents an alternative approach to mitigating racialized inequality, one which more effectively challenges the self-oriented and extractive logics undergirding systemic racism: rather than expropriating blame to others, or else adopting introspective and psychologized approaches to fundamentally social problems, those sincerely committed to antiracism can take concrete steps in the real worldactions which require no legislation or coercion of naysayers, just a willingness to personally make sacrifices for the sake of racial justice.

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Norms and Beliefs: How Change Occurs

Cited by 156 publications

References 36 publications

Nudging with Care: The Risks and Benefits of Social Information

Nudging with Care: The Risks and Benefits of Social Information

Modeling norms removal in open normative multi-agent system

Resistance as Sacrifice: Towards an Ascetic Antiracism

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