Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies

Kimmo Eriksson; Pontus Strimling; Michele Gelfand; Junhui Wu; Jered Abernathy; Charity S Akotia; Alisher Aldashev; Per A Andersson; Giulia Andrighetto; Adote Anum; Gizem Arikan; Zeynep Aycan; Fatemeh Bagherian; Davide Barrera; Dana Basnight-Brown; Birzhan Batkeyev; Anabel Belaus; Elizaveta Berezina; Marie Björnstjerna; Sheyla Blumen; Paweł Boski; Fouad Bou Zeineddine; Inna Bovina; Bui Thi Thu Huyen; Juan-Camilo Cardenas; Đorđe Čekrlija; Hoon-Seok Choi; Carlos C Contreras-Ibáñez; Rui Costa-Lopes; Mícheál de Barra; Piyanjali de Zoysa; Angela Dorrough; Nikolay Dvoryanchikov; Anja Eller; Jan B Engelmann; Hyun Euh; Xia Fang; Susann Fiedler; Olivia A Foster-Gimbel; Márta Fülöp; Ragna B Gardarsdottir; C M Hew D Gill; Andreas Glöckner; Sylvie Graf; Ani Grigoryan; Vladimir Gritskov; Katarzyna Growiec; Peter Halama; Andree Hartanto; Tim Hopthrow; Martina Hřebíčková; Dzintra Iliško; Hirotaka Imada; Hansika Kapoor; Kerry Kawakami; Narine Khachatryan; Natalia Kharchenko; Ninetta Khoury; Toko Kiyonari; Michal Kohút; Lê Thuỳ Linh; Lisa M Leslie; Yang Li; Norman P Li; Zhuo Li; Kadi Liik; Angela T Maitner; Bernardo Manhique; Harry Manley; Imed Medhioub; Sari Mentser; Linda Mohammed; Pegah Nejat; Orlando Nipassa; Ravit Nussinson; Nneoma G Onyedire; Ike E Onyishi; Seniha Özden; Penny Panagiotopoulou; Lorena R Perez-Floriano; Minna S Persson; Mpho Pheko; Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman; Marianna Pogosyan; Jana Raver; Cecilia Reyna; Ricardo Borges Rodrigues; Sara Romanò; Pedro P Romero; Inari Sakki; Alvaro San Martin; Sara Sherbaji; Hiroshi Shimizu; Brent Simpson; Erna Szabo; Kosuke Takemura; Hassan Tieffi; Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira; Napoj Thanomkul; Habib Tiliouine; Giovanni A Travaglino; Yannis Tsirbas; Richard Wan; Sita Widodo; Rizqy Zein; Qing-Peng Zhang; Lina Zirganou-Kazolea; Paul A M Van Lange

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Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies

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Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies

Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling, Michele Gelfand, Junhui Wu, Jered Abernathy, Charity S Akotia, Alisher Aldashev, Per A Andersson, Giulia Andrighetto, Adote Anum, …

Nature communications, Vol.12(1), pp.1481-11

05/03/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21602-9

PMID: 33674587

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Attention

Comprehension

Female

Humans

Judgment

Male

Negotiating

Perception

Social Behavior

Social Norms

Social Support

Value of Life

Violence

Norm enforcement may be important for resolving conflicts and promoting cooperation. However, little is known about how preferred responses to norm violations vary across cultures and across domains. In a preregistered study of 57 countries (using convenience samples of 22,863 students and non-students), we measured perceptions of the appropriateness of various responses to a violation of a cooperative norm and to atypical social behaviors. Our findings highlight both cultural universals and cultural variation. We find a universal negative relation between appropriateness ratings of norm violations and appropriateness ratings of responses in the form of confrontation, social ostracism and gossip. Moreover, we find the country variation in the appropriateness of sanctions to be consistent across different norm violations but not across different sanctions. Specifically, in those countries where use of physical confrontation and social ostracism is rated as less appropriate, gossip is rated as more appropriate.

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Title: Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies
Creators - without role: Kimmo Eriksson - Stockholm University
Pontus Strimling - Institute for Futures Studies
Michele Gelfand - University of Maryland, College Park
Junhui Wu - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jered Abernathy - University of South Carolina
Charity S Akotia - University of Ghana
Alisher Aldashev - Satbayev University
Per A Andersson - Stockholm University
Giulia Andrighetto - Mälardalen University
Adote Anum - University of Ghana
Gizem Arikan - Trinity College Dublin
Zeynep Aycan - Koç University
Fatemeh Bagherian - Shahid Beheshti University
Davide Barrera - Collegio Carlo Alberto
Dana Basnight-Brown - United States International University Africa
Birzhan Batkeyev - Kazakh-British Technical University
Anabel Belaus - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Elizaveta Berezina - Sunway University
Marie Björnstjerna - Institute for Futures Studies
Sheyla Blumen - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
Paweł Boski - University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Fouad Bou Zeineddine - Department of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Inna Bovina - Moscow State University of Psychology & Education
Bui Thi Thu Huyen - Hanoi National University of Education
Juan-Camilo Cardenas - Universidad de Los Andes
Đorđe Čekrlija - University of Banja Luka
Hoon-Seok Choi - Sungkyunkwan University
Carlos C Contreras-Ibáñez - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Rui Costa-Lopes - University of Lisbon
Mícheál de Barra - Brunel University London
Piyanjali de Zoysa - University of Colombo
Angela Dorrough - University of Cologne
Nikolay Dvoryanchikov - Moscow State University of Psychology & Education
Anja Eller - Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México
Jan B Engelmann - University of Amsterdam
Hyun Euh - University of Minnesota
Xia Fang - York University
Susann Fiedler - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Olivia A Foster-Gimbel - New York University
Márta Fülöp - Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology
Ragna B Gardarsdottir - University of Iceland
C M Hew D Gill - Sunway University
Andreas Glöckner - University of Cologne
Sylvie Graf - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology
Ani Grigoryan - Yerevan State University
Vladimir Gritskov - St Petersburg University
Katarzyna Growiec - University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Peter Halama - Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences
Andree Hartanto - Singapore Management University
Tim Hopthrow - University of Kent
Martina Hřebíčková - Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Psychology
Dzintra Iliško - Daugavpils University
Hirotaka Imada - University of Kent
Hansika Kapoor - University of Mumbai
Kerry Kawakami - York University
Narine Khachatryan - Yerevan State University
Natalia Kharchenko - Kyiv International Institute of Sociology
Ninetta Khoury - Future Minds Gifted Centre, Lima, Peru
Toko Kiyonari - Aoyama Gakuin University
Michal Kohút - University of Trnava
Lê Thuỳ Linh - National Economics University
Lisa M Leslie - New York University
Yang Li - University of Melbourne
Norman P Li - Singapore Management University
Zhuo Li - Western Caspian University
Kadi Liik - Tallinn University
Angela T Maitner - American University of Sharjah
Bernardo Manhique - Eduardo Mondlane University
Harry Manley - Chulalongkorn University
Imed Medhioub - Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic University
Sari Mentser - Open University of Israel
Linda Mohammed - University of Trinidad and Tobago
Pegah Nejat - Shahid Beheshti University
Orlando Nipassa - Eduardo Mondlane University
Ravit Nussinson - Open University of Israel
Nneoma G Onyedire - University of Nigeria
Ike E Onyishi - University of Nigeria
Seniha Özden - Koç University
Penny Panagiotopoulou - University of Patras
Lorena R Perez-Floriano - Diego Portales University
Minna S Persson - Institute for Futures Studies
Mpho Pheko - University of Botswana
Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman - University of Helsinki
Marianna Pogosyan - University of Amsterdam
Jana Raver - Queen's University
Cecilia Reyna - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Ricardo Borges Rodrigues - Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Sara Romanò - University of Turin
Pedro P Romero - Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Inari Sakki - University of Eastern Finland
Alvaro San Martin - IESE Business School, Madrid, Spain
Sara Sherbaji - American University of Sharjah
Hiroshi Shimizu - Kwansei Gakuin University
Brent Simpson - University of South Carolina
Erna Szabo - Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Kosuke Takemura - Shiga University
Hassan Tieffi - Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira - Texas Health Dallas
Napoj Thanomkul - Chulalongkorn University
Habib Tiliouine - Université d'Oran 2
Giovanni A Travaglino - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Yannis Tsirbas - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Richard Wan - Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Sita Widodo - Department of Personality and Social Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
Rizqy Zein - Department of Personality and Social Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
Qing-Peng Zhang - Guangzhou University
Lina Zirganou-Kazolea - National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Paul A M Van Lange - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Publication Details: Nature communications, Vol.12(1), pp.1481-11
Identifiers: 9916060808331
Academic Unit: Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU)
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article