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Eriksson K, Strimling P, Gelfand M, Wu J, Abernathy J, Akotia CS, Aldashev A, Andersson PA, Andrighetto G, Anum A, Arikan G, Aycan Z, Bagherian F, Barrera D, Basnight-Brown D, Batkeyev B, Belaus A, Berezina E, Björnstjerna M, Blumen S, Boski P, Bou Zeineddine F, Bovina I, Huyen BTT, Cardenas JC, Čekrlija Đ, Choi HS, Contreras-Ibáñez CC, Costa-Lopes R, de Barra M, de Zoysa P, Dorrough A, Dvoryanchikov N, Eller A, Engelmann JB, Euh H, Fang X, Fiedler S, Foster-Gimbel OA, Fülöp M, Gardarsdottir RB, Gill CMHD, Glöckner A, Graf S, Grigoryan A, Gritskov V, Growiec K, Halama P, Hartanto A, Hopthrow T, Hřebíčková M, Iliško D, Imada H, Kapoor H, Kawakami K, Khachatryan N, Kharchenko N, Khoury N, Kiyonari T, Kohút M, Linh LT, Leslie LM, Li Y, Li NP, Li Z, Liik K, Maitner AT, Manhique B, Manley H, Medhioub I, Mentser S, Mohammed L, Nejat P, Nipassa O, Nussinson R, Onyedire NG, Onyishi IE, Özden S, Panagiotopoulou P, Perez-Floriano LR, Persson MS, Pheko M, Pirttilä-Backman AM, Pogosyan M, Raver J, Reyna C, Rodrigues RB, Romanò S, Romero PP, Sakki I, San Martin A, Sherbaji S, Shimizu H, Simpson B, Szabo E, Takemura K, Tieffi H, Mendes Teixeira ML, Thanomkul N, Tiliouine H, Travaglino GA, Tsirbas Y, Wan R, Widodo S, Zein R, Zhang QP, Zirganou-Kazolea L, Van Lange PAM. Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies. Nat Commun 2021; 12:1481. [PMID: 33674587 PMCID: PMC7935962 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-21602-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Accepted: 01/29/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
Abstract
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. Little is known about people’s preferred responses to norm violations across countries. Here, in a study of 57 countries, the authors highlight cultural similarities and differences in people’s perception of the appropriateness of norm violations.
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Affiliation(s)
- Kimmo Eriksson
- Center for Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. .,Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
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- Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 84 Legon, Accra, Ghana
| | - Alisher Aldashev
- New School of Economics, Satbayev University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Center for Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
| | - Giulia Andrighetto
- Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden.,Institute for Futures Studies, Box 591, Stockholm, Sweden.,Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy, Rome, Italy
| | - Adote Anum
- Department of Psychology, University of Ghana, P.O. Box LG 84 Legon, Accra, Ghana
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- Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
| | - Zeynep Aycan
- Koç University, Rumelifeneri, Sarıyer Rumelifeneri Yolu, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology and Education, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy
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- United States International University - Africa, Box 14634 00800, Nairobi, Kenya
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- International School of Economics, Kazakh-British Technical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas (IIPsi), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), CABA, República Argentina.,Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC). Facultad de Psicología (UNC), Ciudad Universitaria, Bv. de la Reforma esquina, Enfermera Gordillo s/n, Córdoba, Argentina
| | - Elizaveta Berezina
- Sunway University, No. 5, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
| | | | - Sheyla Blumen
- Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, San Miguel, Lima, Peru
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- SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Chodakowska, Poland
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- Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
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- Hanoi National University of Education, Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam
| | | | - Đorđe Čekrlija
- Faculty of philosophy, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department of Psychology, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
| | - Carlos C Contreras-Ibáñez
- Departamento de Sociología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Unidad Iztapalapa, Ciudad de México, Mexico
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- Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Center for Culture and Evolution, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UK
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
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- Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Av. Universidad 3004, Ciudad Universitaria, Ciudad de México, Mexico
| | - Jan B Engelmann
- Center for Research in Experimental Economics and Political Decision Making (CREED), Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, P.O. Box 15867, Amsterdam, NJ, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA
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- Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Research Centre of Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.,Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Psychology and Education, Budapest, Hungary
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- Sunway University, No. 5, Jalan Universiti, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
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- Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.,Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
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- Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Personality Psychology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
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- SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Chodakowska, Poland
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- Center for Social and Psychological Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
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- School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore
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- School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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- Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
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- School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
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- Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Personality Psychology, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara-city, Kanagawa, Japan
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- Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of Trnava, Trnava, Slovakia
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- National Economics University, Hai Ba Trung, Dong Tam District, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- New York University, Stern School of Business, New York, NY, 10012, USA
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- Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan.,Melbourne School of Psychological Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
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- School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
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- School of Natural Sciences and Health, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia
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- Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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- Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Maputo, Mozambique
| | - Harry Manley
- Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Finance and Investment, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), P.O. Box 5701, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- Institute of Criminology and Public Safety, Valsayn Campus, Graver Road, Valsayn, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Arima, Trinidad and Tobago
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- Department of Psychology and Education, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, Maputo, Mozambique
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- The Open University of Israel, Raanana, Israel.,University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria
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- Department of Psychology, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria
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- Koç University, Rumelifeneri, Sarıyer Rumelifeneri Yolu, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Psychology, University of Botswana, Private Bag UB 00705, Gaborone, Botswana
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- University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences, Social Psychology, PO Box 54 (Unioninkatu 37), Helsinki, Finland
| | - Marianna Pogosyan
- Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE), University of Amsterdam, PO Box 15575, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
| | - Jana Raver
- Queen's University, Goodes Hall, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
| | - Cecilia Reyna
- Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas (IIPsi), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), CABA, República Argentina
| | | | - Sara Romanò
- Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
| | - Pedro P Romero
- Experimental and Computational Economics Lab (ECEL), School of Economics, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Diego de Robles y Pampite, Quito, Ecuador
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- University of Eastern Finland, Department of Social Sciences, P.O. Box 162770211, Kuopio, Finland
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- Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah, PO Box 26666, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
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- Department of International Management, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
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- Faculty of Economics, Shiga University, Hikone, Shiga, Japan
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- Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny Cocody-Abidjan, Centre Ivoirien d'Etude et de Recherche en Psychologie Appliquée (CIERPA), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
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- Faculty of Psychology, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Labo-PECS, Faculty of Social Sciences, Université d'Oran 2, Oran, Algeria
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- School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.,School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Longgang District, Shenzhen, P. R. China
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- University of Athens, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Athens, Greece
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- Department of International Management, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
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- Department of Personality and Social Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
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- Department of Personality and Social Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia
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- Guangzhou University, Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center, Guangzhou, P.R. China
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- University of Athens, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Athens, Greece
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- VU Amsterdam, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam (IBBA), Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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