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Rethinking norm psychology
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Norms permeate human life. Most of people’s activities can be characterized by rules about what is appropriate, allowed, required, or forbidden—rules that are crucial in making people hyper-cooperative animals. In this article, I examine the current cognitive-evolutionary account of “norm psychology” and propose an alternative that is better supported by evidence and better placed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue. The incumbent theory focuses on rules and claims that humans genetically i...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1177/17456916221112075
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Journal:
- Perspectives on Psychological Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 12-38
- Publication date:
- 2023-07-13
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-06-07
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1745-6924
- ISSN:
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1745-6916
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English
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1263840
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pubs:1263840
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2022-06-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Cecilia Heyes
- Copyright date:
- 2022
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- © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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