TOPIC 9: SOCIAL NORMS AND BEHAVIOR

Norms work through multiple systems

Norms guide behavior effectively because they are:

• Explicitly enforced
  → rewards and punishments

• Socially meaningful
  → signal belonging or exclusion

• Cognitively useful
  → tell us what is appropriate

• Internally adopted
  → become part of the self

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