Kimmo Eriksson, Imed Medhioub, Lorena R. Perez-Floriano, Penny Panagiotopoulou, Seniha Özden, Ike E. Onyishi, Nneoma G. Onyedire, Ravit Nussinson, Orlando Nipassa, Pegah Nejat, Linda Mohammed, Sari Mentser, Harry Manley, Mpho Pheko, Bernardo Manhique, Angela T. Maitner, Kadi Liik, Zhuo Li, Norman P. Li, Yang Li, Lisa M. Leslie, Lê Thuỳ Linh, Michal Kohút, Toko Kiyonari, Ninetta Khoury, Minna S. Persson, Anna-Maija Pirttilä-Backman, Narine Khachatryan, Hassan Tieffi, Lina Zirganou-Kazolea, Qing-peng Zhang, Rizqy Zein, Sita Widodo, Richard Wan, Yannis Tsirbas, Giovanni A. Travaglino, Habib Tiliouine, Napoj Thanomkul, Maria Luisa Mendes Teixeira, Kosuke Takemura, Marianna Pogosyan, Erna Szabo, Brent Simpson, Hiroshi Shimizu, Sara Sherbaji, Alvaro San Martin, Inari Sakki, Pedro P. Romero, Sara Romanò, Ricardo Borges Rodrigues, Cecilia Reyna, Jana Raver, Natalia Kharchenko, Kerry Kawakami, Pontus Strimling, Dana Basnight-Brown, Juan-Camilo Cardenas, Bui Thi Thu Huyen, Inna Bovina, Fouad Bou Zeineddine, Paweł Boski, Sheyla Blumen, Marie Björnstjerna, Elizaveta Berezina, Anabel Belaus, Birzhan Batkeyev, Davide Barrera, Hoon-Seok Choi, Fatemeh Bagherian, Zeynep Aycan, Gizem Arikan, Adote Anum, Giulia Andrighetto, Per A. Andersson, Alisher Aldashev, Charity S. Akotia, Jered Abernathy, Junhui Wu, Michele Gelfand, Đorđe Čekrlija, Carlos C. Contreras-Ibáñez, Hansika Kapoor, C. M. Hew D. Gill, Hirotaka Imada, Dzintra Iliško, Martina Hřebíčková, Tim Hopthrow, Andree Hartanto, Peter Halama, Katarzyna Growiec, Vladimir Gritskov, Ani Grigoryan, Sylvie Graf, Andreas Glöckner, Ragna B. Gardarsdottir, Rui Costa-Lopes, Márta Fülöp, Olivia A. Foster-Gimbel, Susann Fiedler, Xia Fang, Hyun Euh, Jan B. Engelmann, Anja Eller, Nikolay Dvoryanchikov, Angela Dorrough, Piyanjali de Zoysa, Mícheál de Barra, Paul A. M. Van Lange
AbstractNorm 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.
Publication reference
Eriksson, K., Strimling, P., Gelfand, M., Wu, J., Abernathy, J., Akotia, C. S., … Anum, A. (2021). Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies. Nature Communications, 12(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21602-9
Publication | 27 April 2021
