Discover the essential unwritten rules and cultural expectations that define daily life in Japan to ensure a respectful and ...
How do children learn to cooperate with others? A new cross-cultural study suggests that the answer depends less on universal rules and more on the social norms surrounding the child. In the study, ...
The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention will held a 2-day public workshop on October 29-30, 2015 to explore the cultural and social norms that underlie the acceptance of ...
Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode The hidden forces shaping your choices. Social norms vary dramatically from one culture to another — but why? Psychologist Michele Gelfand unpacks why societies ...
A study examining cultural characteristics of infants’ behavior found that Korean and Japanese infants cry more when ...
This is the second of a three-part series on The Rise of a Culture of Censorship. The first post was on censorship by authorities, including the government. Censorship involves shutting people up and ...
Singing in a restaurant is one example of breaking a social norm. Source: picjumbo / Pexels There’s a scene from Disney’s "The Santa Clause 2" that lives rent-free in my head. Scott Calvin, played by ...