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2-032 - The foundations of social norm psychology

Fri, March 22, 8:00 to 9:30am, Baltimore Convention Center, Floor: Level 3, Room 346

Session Type: Paper Symposium

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Norms of cooperation vary widely across societies (Henrich et al., 2005; 2006; 2010). This variation presents children with a challenge: not only must they learn how to cooperate with others, they must learn to follow local norms of cooperation. While recent work has begun to chart societal variation in the development of cooperative behavior (Rochat et al., 2009; House et al., 2013; Blake et al., 2015; Schäfer et al., 2015), relatively less work has focused on the processes by which this variation is constructed through children’s expanding understanding of norms. This symposium aims to address this critical gap in our understanding of children’s emerging social norm psychology.
Here we bring together four presenters who employ diverse methods with diverse populations, united by a common goal of understanding (1) when children begin to conform with local social norms, (2) when and how they begin to enforce those norms in others and (3) the psychological processes supporting norm acquisition. Our first two presenters offer a cross-cultural perspective, showing that children across different societies show marked variation in their compliance with and enforcement of social norms. Our second two presenters take a more mechanistic view, with one examining the role that punishment plays in facilitating norm acquisition and the other studying processes of norm internalization. Together, these talks offer a fresh perspective on children’s developing understanding of how they ought to behave in their respective societies and the processes that help bring their behavior in line with this understanding.

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