Cited by 497Evolutionary Game Theory and CooperationEconomic Theory and InstitutionsExperimental Behavioral Economics Studies

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 154 of the 156 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

The Evolution of Social Norms

Open access

Young, H. Peyton·2015·Annual Review of Economics

DOI 10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115322

Open this paper in CoChat — free account Open PDF

Abstract

Social norms are patterns of behavior that are self-enforcing within a group: Everyone conforms, everyone is expected to conform, and everyone wants to conform when they expect everyone else to conform. Social norms are often sustained by multiple mechanisms, including a desire to coordinate, fear of being sanctioned, signaling membership in a group, or simply following the lead of others. This article shows how stochastic evolutionary game theory can be used to study the resulting dynamics. I illustrate with a variety of examples drawn from economics, sociology, demography, and political science. These include bargaining norms, norms governing the terms of contracts, norms of retirement, dueling, foot binding, medical treatment, and the use of contraceptives. These cases highlight the challenges of applying the theory to empirical cases. They also show that the modern theory of norm dynamics yields insights and predictions that go beyond conventional equilibrium analysis.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115322

Cites

154 of 154 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
North, D. C. (1990) · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511808678 · Cited by 32,691
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Munger, M. C., & North, D. C. (1991) · Southern Economic Journal · doi:10.2307/1060065 · Cited by 25,224
The Evolution of Cooperation
Axelrod, R., & Hamilton, W. D. (1981) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.7466396 · Cited by 20,065
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Smith, A. C. (1776) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oseo/instance.00043218 · Cited by 14,343
Making democracy work: civic traditions in modern Italy
(1993) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.30-6408 · Cited by 14,338
Conditional logit analysis of qualitative choice behavior
McFadden, D. L. (1972) · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · Cited by 14,203
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
Stern, F., & Putnam, R. D. (1993) · Foreign Affairs · doi:10.2307/20045657 · Cited by 11,292
Frontiers in Econometrics
Cragg, J. G., & Zarembka, P. (1975) · Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique · doi:10.2307/134075 · Cited by 8,477
Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
(1982) · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511809477 · Cited by 8,240
The Bargaining Problem
Nash, J. F. (1950) · Econometrica · doi:10.2307/1907266 · Cited by 8,046

Show all 156 references

Research works printed but not linked: 13

Axtell R, 1999, Behavioral Dimensions of Retirement Economics, 161
Bolton P, 2005, Contract Theory
Brown LM. 2013. The diffusion of innovations: empirical and experimental evidence. PhD Diss., Univ. Oxford
Durlauf SN, 1997, The Economy as a Complex Evolving System, 2, 81
Hechter M, 2001, Social Norms
Homans GC, 1950, The Human Group
Jindani S. 2014. A game-theoretic approach to dueling and other social norms. MPhilos. Thesis, Dep. Econ., Oxford Univ.
Kanazawa S, Still MC. 2001. The emergence of marriage norms: an evolutionary psychological perspective. See Hechter & Opp 2001, pp. 274–304
Mallaby S, 2010, More Money Than God
Posner EA, 2000, Law and Social Norms
Schelling TC, 1960, The Strategy of Conflict
Sugden R, 1986, The Economics of Rights, Cooperation and Welfare
Wennberg J, 1982, Sci. Am., 182, 1102

Sorted by citations

Items 101–200 of 497

Normative Pressure Affects Attitudes Toward Pornography
Grigoropoulos, I. N. (2022) · Sexuality & Culture · doi:10.1007/s12119-022-10036-0 · Cited by 25
A learning agent that acquires social norms from public sanctions in decentralized multi-agent settings
Vinitsky, E., Koster, R., Agapiou, J., Duéñez‐Guzmán, E. A., Vezhnevets, A. S., & Leibo, J. Z. (2023) · Collective Intelligence · doi:10.1177/26339137231162025 · Cited by 54
From facilitating interactivity to managing hyperconnectivity: 50 years of human–computer studies
Gaines, B. R. (2019) · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies · doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.05.007 · Cited by 25
Heterogeneous groups cooperate in public good problems despite normative disagreements about individual contribution levels
Otten, K., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., & Ellemers, N. (2020) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-020-73314-7 · Cited by 24
The longitudinal association between moral injury appraisals and psychological outcomes in refugees
Nickerson, A., Byrow, Y., Hoffman, J., O'Donnell, M., Bryant, R. A., Mastrogiovanni, N., McMahon, T., Benson, G., Mau, V., & Liddell, B. J. (2022) · Psychological Medicine · doi:10.1017/s0033291720004262 · Cited by 24
Disentangling material, social, and cognitive determinants of human behavior and beliefs
Tverskoi, D., Guido, A., Andrighetto, G., Sánchez, Á., & Sergey Gavrilets, B. (2023) · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · doi:10.1057/s41599-023-01745-4 · Cited by 23
Birds of a Feather . . . Enforce Social Norms? Interactions Among Culture, Norms, and Strategy
Li, H., & den Steen, E. V. (2019) · Strategy Science · doi:10.1287/stsc.2021.0129 · Cited by 23
Guess What …?—How Guessed Norms Nudge Climate-Friendly Food Choices in Real-Life Settings
Griesoph, A., Hoffmann, S., Merk, C., Katrin Rehdanz, A., & Schmidt, U. (2021) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su13158669 · Cited by 22
You can’t burn the house down because of one bedbug: a qualitative study of changing gender norms in the prevention of violence against women and girls in an urban informal settlement in India
Daruwalla, N., Hate, K., Pinto, P., Ambavkar, G., Kakad, B., & Osrin, D. (2017) · Wellcome Open Research · doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.11805.1 · Cited by 21
Do descriptive social norms drive peer punishment? Conditional punishment strategies and their impact on cooperation
Li, X., Molleman, L., & van Dolder, D. (2021) · Evolution and Human Behavior · doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.04.002 · Cited by 23
Strategic Behavior with Tight, Loose, and Polarized NormsPreprint
Dimant, E., Gelfand, M. J., Hochleitner, A., & Sonderegger, S. (2022) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.4004123 · Cited by 22
From Working in the Fields to Taking Control. Towards a Typology of Women's Decision-Making in Wheat in India
Farnworth, C. R., Jafry, T., Bharati, P., Badstue, L. B., & Yadav, A. (2020) · European Journal of Development Research · doi:10.1057/s41287-020-00281-0 · Cited by 20
Asynchronous Expressed and Private Opinion Dynamics on Influence Networks
Xia, W., Liang, H. W., & Ye, M. (2022) · IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems · doi:10.1109/tcns.2022.3219766 · Cited by 20
Why the trend towards gas-guzzlers? A closer look at the complex effects of social norms on German car buyers
Vögele, S., Broska, L. H., Otte, S., & Rübbelke, D. (2020) · Energy Research & Social Science · doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101840 · Cited by 22
Cultural evolution: Where we have been and where we are going (maybe)
Boyd, R. T., & Richerson, P. J. (2024) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.2322879121 · Cited by 22
Parent-child Communication, Social Norms, and the Development of Cyber Aggression in Early Adolescence
Bullo, A., & Schulz, P. J. (2022) · Journal of Youth and Adolescence · doi:10.1007/s10964-022-01625-1 · Cited by 19
A global perspective is needed to protect environmental defenders
Ghazoul, J., & Kleinschroth, F. (2018) · Nature Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0640-1 · Cited by 19
Efficiency and Equilibrium in Network Games: An Experiment
Gallo, E., & Chang, Y. (2021) · The Review of Economics and Statistics · doi:10.1162/rest_a_01105 · Cited by 19
A framework for the application of socio-technical design methodology
Ahmad, A., Whitworth, B., & Bertino, E. (2022) · Ethics and Information Technology · doi:10.1007/s10676-022-09651-0 · Cited by 19
Acceptable Discourse: Social Norms of Beliefs and Opinions
Golman, R. (2022) · European Economic Review · doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2023.104588 · Cited by 20
From Social Deviance to Art: Vandalism, Illicit Dumping, and the Transformation of Matter and Form
Palermo, M. T. (2020) · Social Sciences · doi:10.3390/socsci9060106 · Cited by 18
Regional Development and Noneconomic Factors
Azis, I. J. (2019) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-102295-5.10117-9 · Cited by 18
Social Conflict and the Evolution of Unequal Conventions
Hwang, S., Naidu, S., & Bowles, S. (2024) · Journal of the European Economic Association · doi:10.1093/jeea/jvae004 · Cited by 17
Facilitating innovation diffusion in social networks using dynamic norms
Zino, L., Ye, M., & Cao, M. (2022) · PNAS Nexus · doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac229 · Cited by 21
Transformational Community Engagement in Urban Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships: A Governmentality Approach to Create Social Value
Afieroho, U. E., Li, Y., Han, Y., Soomro, M. A., & Radujković, M. (2023) · Buildings · doi:10.3390/buildings13051225 · Cited by 17
How social norms and dietary identity affect willingness to try cultured meat
Lewisch, L., & Riefler, P. (2023) · British Food Journal · doi:10.1108/bfj-11-2022-1016 · Cited by 14
The Affective Evolution of Social Norms in Social Networks
Sajadi, S. H., Fazli, M., & Habibi, J. (2018) · IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems · doi:10.1109/tcss.2018.2855417 · Cited by 17
Re-visiting rules and norms
Fleetwood, S. (2019) · Review of Social Economy · doi:10.1080/00346764.2019.1623909 · Cited by 17
Economics, Facsimile Science and Societal Harm
Muller, S. (2021) · Debating higher education: philosophical perspectives · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-84447-9_11 · Cited by 16
Caste-gender intersectionalities in wheat-growing communities in Madhya Pradesh, India
Farnworth, C. R., Bharati, P., Krishna, V. V., Roeven, L., & Badstue, L. B. (2022) · Gender Technology and Development · doi:10.1080/09718524.2022.2034096 · Cited by 16
Social learning and the shadow of the past
Heller, Y., & Mohlin, E. (2017) · Journal of Economic Theory · doi:10.1016/j.jet.2018.07.003 · Cited by 15
What determines the willingness to sanction violations of newly introduced social norms: Personality traits or economic preferences? evidence from the COVID-19 crisis
Schunk, D., & Wagner, V. (2021) · Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics · doi:10.1016/j.socec.2021.101716 · Cited by 18
Close encounters of the worst kind: reforms needed to curb coral reef damage by recreational divers
Lin, B. (2021) · Coral Reefs · doi:10.1007/s00338-021-02153-3 · Cited by 19
Predicting the Entrepreneurial Behaviour of Starting Up a New Company: A Regional Study Using PLS-SEM and Data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
Martínez-González, J. A., Álvarez‐Albelo, C. D., Jiménez, J. M., & Kobylińska, U. (2022) · Mathematics · doi:10.3390/math10050704 · Cited by 17
Shifting setting densities and normative evaluations of recreation experiences over time
Kyle, G. T., & Landon, A. C. (2021) · Landscape and Urban Planning · doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.104034 · Cited by 15
Attitudinal Acceptance of Intimate Partner Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults in Nigeria and Tanzania: An Exploration Into Target Reference Groups
Meinhart, M., Seff, I., Darmstadt, G. L., Weber, A. M., & Stark, L. (2019) · Journal of Adolescent Health · doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2019.10.006 · Cited by 15
Modeling the formation of social conventions from embodied real-time interactions
Freire, I. T., Moulin-Frier, C., Sánchez-Fibla, M., Arsiwalla, X. D., & Verschure, P. F. M. J. (2020) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0234434 · Cited by 25
How aggregated opinions shape beliefs
Oktar, K., & Lombrozo, T. (2025) · Nature Reviews Psychology · doi:10.1038/s44159-024-00398-7 · Cited by 17
The Effect of Social Norms on Physicians’ Intentions to Use Liver Cancer Screening: A Cross-Sectional Study Using Extended Theory of Planned Behavior
Deng, Q., & Liu, W. (2022) · Risk Management and Healthcare Policy · doi:10.2147/rmhp.s349387 · Cited by 14
Reform Reversals: Areas, Circumstances and Motivations
Székely, I. P., & Ward-Warmedinger, M. E. (2018) · Comparative Economic Studies · doi:10.1057/s41294-018-0077-1 · Cited by 14
Why Employees Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviour: The Role of Pluralistic Ignorance in Chinese Society
Chumg, H.-F., Shi, J.-W., & Sun, K. (2019) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su12010239 · Cited by 14
Do More Likes Lead to More Clicks? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Social Advertising
Huang, S., & Lin, S. (2024) · Journal of Marketing · doi:10.1177/00222429241307608 · Cited by 13
Financial Market Ethics
Easley, D. A., & O’Hara, M. (2022) · Review of Financial Studies · doi:10.1093/rfs/hhac015 · Cited by 13
Identifying social tipping point through perceived peer effect
Peng, Y., & Bai, X. (2024) · Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions · doi:10.1016/j.eist.2024.100847 · Cited by 16
Fostering participation in digital contact tracing
Rehse, D., & Tremöhlen, F. (2021) · Information Economics and Policy · doi:10.1016/j.infoecopol.2021.100938 · Cited by 16
The evolution of distorted beliefs vs. mistaken choices under asymmetric error costs
Efferson, C. M., McKay, R., & Fehr, E. (2020) · Evolutionary Human Sciences · doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.25 · Cited by 12
The evolution and persistence of women's roles: Evidence from the Gold Rush
Aguilar-Gómez, S., & Benshaul-Tolonen, A. (2023) · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2023.09.009 · Cited by 13
Cooperation, punishment, and group change in multilevel public goods experiments
Otten, K., Buskens, V., Przepiorka, W., Cherki, B. R., & Israel, S. (2024) · European Economic Review · doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104682 · Cited by 12
Social perceptions going online: Exploring the impact of social media food content exposure on perceptions of food norms
Qin, K., Mollen, S., Waterlander, W. E., Cai, S., & Smit, E. S. (2024) · Appetite · doi:10.1016/j.appet.2024.107803 · Cited by 12
Behavioural homogenization with spillovers in a normative domain
Efferson, C. M., & Vogt, S. (2018) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.0492 · Cited by 12
How cultural evolution can inform the science of science communication—and vice versa
Bendixen, T. (2020) · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · doi:10.1057/s41599-020-00634-4 · Cited by 14
Random Deviations Improve Micro–Macro Predictions: An Empirical Test
Mäs, M., & Helbing, D. (2017) · Sociological Methods & Research · doi:10.1177/0049124117729708 · Cited by 13
State-building Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia
Mulbah, S. (2017) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315177847 · Cited by 11
Devising a people-friendly test kit for overcoming challenges in the assessment of water quality and analysis of water pollution in the river Ganga
Chauhan, S. K., Yadav, A., Kurup, P. M., Li, X., Swarnakar, P., & Gupta, R. K. (2023) · RSC Sustainability · doi:10.1039/d2su00071g · Cited by 12
Cooperation dynamics of prisoner's dilemma games on an evolutionary weighted network with heterogeneous preferences
Quan, J., Zhang, Y., Chen, W., & Wang, X. (2024) · Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science · doi:10.1063/5.0224176 · Cited by 11
Populism and the rule of law: The importance of institutional legacies
Kyriacou, A. P., & Trivín, P. (2024) · American Journal of Political Science · doi:10.1111/ajps.12935 · Cited by 23
What noise matters? Experimental evidence for stochastic deviations in social norms
Bilancini, E., Boncinelli, L., & Nax, H. H. (2020) · Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics · doi:10.1016/j.socec.2020.101626 · Cited by 10
Perceptions and acceptability of electricity theft: Towards better public service provision
Wong, J. C. Y., Blankenship, B., Urpelainen, J., Ganesan, K., Bharadwaj, K., & Balani, K. (2020) · World Development · doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105301 · Cited by 11
Normative theory of international relations and the ‘mackerel war’ in the North East Atlantic
Gray, T. S. (2021) · Marine Policy · doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104620 · Cited by 11
Karma chameleon: Exploring the leadership complexities of middle managers in the public sector
Tyskbo, D., & Styhre, A. (2022) · International Public Management Journal · doi:10.1080/10967494.2022.2106330 · Cited by 23
“Doing what others do” does not stabilize continuous norms
Yan, M., Mathew, S., & Boyd, R. (2023) · PNAS Nexus · doi:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad054 · Cited by 8
Ultimate and proximate explanations of strong reciprocity
Vromen, J. (2017) · History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences · doi:10.1007/s40656-017-0151-4 · Cited by 11
Why physicians are lousy gatekeepers: Sicklisting decisions when patients have private information on symptoms
Carlsen, B., Lind, J. T., & Nyborg, K. (2020) · Health Economics · doi:10.1002/hec.4019 · Cited by 11
Two Ways to Adopt a Norm
Kelly, D. F. (2022) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198871712.013.17 · Cited by 13
Explaining shifts in adaptive water management using a gendered multi-level perspective (MLP): a case study from the Nile Delta of Egypt
Dessalegn, B., Abd-Allah, E., Salem, S., Swelam, A., & Yigezu, Y. A. (2022) · International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · doi:10.1080/14735903.2022.2082765 · Cited by 10
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions
Gulesci, S., Jindani, S., Ferrara, E. L., Smerdon, D., Sulaiman, M., & Young, P. (2025) · American Economic Review · doi:10.1257/aer.20230458 · Cited by 10
Cooperation Enforcement and Collusion Resistance in Repeated Public Goods Games
Li, K., & Hao, D. (2019) · Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · doi:10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33012085 · Cited by 10
Social Norms and Interventions on Peer Violence: A Systematic Review of the Empirical Literature
Sanguineti, M. C. D., Yepes, V., Garzón, M. J. V., Robayo, A. N., Pugh, J. D., & Ortiz, A. I. V. (2022) · Adolescent Research Review · doi:10.1007/s40894-022-00191-8 · Cited by 9
The Behavior of Information: A Reconsideration of Social Norms
Loughmiller-Cardinal, J., & Cardinal, J. S. (2023) · Societies · doi:10.3390/soc13050111 · Cited by 15
Nudging and subsidising farmers to foster smart water meter adoption
Ouvrard, B., Préget, R., Reynaud, A., & Tuffery, L. (2023) · European Review of Agricultural Economics · doi:10.1093/erae/jbad013 · Cited by 16
Competing stakeholder narratives on crypto-assets: Miracle or mirage?
Currie, W. L., & Seddon, J. J. M. (2023) · Journal of Information Technology · doi:10.1177/02683962231202534 · Cited by 10
DAVRANIŞSAL İKTİSAT VE DÜRTME: SAĞLIK POLİTİKALARI ÖZELİNDE BİR İNCELEME
Serim, H., & Küçükşenel, S. (2020) · Hacettepe Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi · doi:10.17065/huniibf.658117 · Cited by 11
Social and gender norms informing, voicing, and reporting against sexual harassment among domestic workers in Kampala's informal economy
Namuggala, V. F., & Oosterom, M. A. (2023) · Development Policy Review · doi:10.1111/dpr.12710 · Cited by 9
“Go green” – evaluating the roles of environmental concerns, environmental social norms and green technology in fostering pro-green banking behaviors
Ashraf, M. (2023) · Journal of financial reporting & accounting · doi:10.1108/jfra-05-2023-0232 · Cited by 13
Studying the influence of single social interactions on approach and avoidance behavior: A multimodal investigation in immersive virtual reality
Gado, S., & Gamer, M. (2025) · Behavior Research Methods · doi:10.3758/s13428-025-02627-0 · Cited by 10
Gender Economics: Dead-Ends and New Opportunities
Lundberg, S. (2022) · Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks · doi:10.1108/s0147-912120230000050006 · Cited by 19
Permissibility vs. Feasibility: AI in service from a CX perspective
Giebelhausen, M. D., & Poehlman, T. A. (2023) · Journal of Services Marketing · doi:10.1108/jsm-06-2023-0210 · Cited by 12
Simulating the Role of Norms in Processes of Social Innovation: Three Case Studies
Jager, W., Guijarro‐Berdiñas, B., Bouman, L., Antosz, P., Betanzos, A. A., Salt, D., Polhill, G. J., Rodríguez‐Arias, A., & Sánchez‐Maroño, N. (2024) · Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation · doi:10.18564/jasss.5168 · Cited by 9
Social interactions and the influence of “extremists”
Crawford, I., & Harris, D. (2018) · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2018.07.007 · Cited by 9
The Creation of Social Norms under Weak Institutions
Diekert, F., Eymess, T., Luomba, J., & Waichman, I. (2022) · Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists · doi:10.1086/720287 · Cited by 9
Priming Norms to Combat Affective Polarization
Mullinix, K. J., & Lythgoe, T. J. (2022) · Political Research Quarterly · doi:10.1177/10659129211073319 · Cited by 9
Effect of knowledge, social and religious factors effecting the intention of Muslims in Pakistan to receive COVID-19 vaccination: mediating role of attitude towards COVID-19 vaccination
Aziz, S., Niazi, M. A. K., & Ghani, U. (2022) · Journal of Islamic marketing · doi:10.1108/jima-12-2021-0400 · Cited by 9
Modeling a Heterogeneous World
Bookstaber, R. M., & Kirman, A. P. (2018) · Handbook of computational economics · doi:10.1016/bs.hescom.2018.03.004 · Cited by 9
Behavioral Regularities and Norm Stickiness: The Cases of Transracial Adoption and Online Privacy
Horne, C., Tinkler, J., & Przepiorka, W. (2018) · Social research · doi:10.1353/sor.2018.0006 · Cited by 9
Generalizing meanings from partners to populations: Hierarchical inference supports convention formation on networksPreprint
Hawkins, R. D., Goodman, N. D., Goldberg, A. E., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020) · arXiv (Cornell University) · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2002.01510 · Cited by 9
The role of agency in social tipping processesPreprint
Gaupp, F., Constantino, S. M., & Pereira, L. M. (2023) · doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-1533 · Cited by 11
Intersectionality: Affirmative Action with Multidimensional Identities
Carvalho, J., Pradelski, B., & Williams, C. R. (2024) · Management Science · doi:10.1287/mnsc.2023.03839 · Cited by 10
Determinants of green purchase and conservation behaviour among young consumers: an emerging economy perspective
Ofori, D. F., Nsiah-Sarfo, D. J., Frimpong, S. E., & Buer, S. B. (2025) · Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain · doi:10.1016/j.clscn.2025.100234 · Cited by 15
An Evolutionary Approach Toward Pro-environmental Behavior
Poškus, M. S. (2020) · Evolutionary Psychological Science · doi:10.1007/s40806-020-00253-x · Cited by 8
Using structural equation modeling to examine the influence of family planning social norms on modern contraceptive use in Nigeria
Mandal, M., Calhoun, L. M., McGuire, C., & Speizer, I. S. (2022) · Frontiers in Sociology · doi:10.3389/fsoc.2022.866254 · Cited by 8
Mass mobilizations for helping war refugees: The role of fear, closeness, and norms
Kossowska, M., Perek-Białas, J. M., Blukacz, M., Szwed, P., Szumowska, E., & Czernatowicz‐Kukuczka, A. (2023) · Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.cresp.2023.100153 · Cited by 8
Peer effects in weight-related behaviours of young people: A systematic literature review
Müller, N., Fallucchi, F., & Suhrcke, M. (2024) · Economics & Human Biology · doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101354 · Cited by 10
Dynamics of Health Technology Diffusion in the Integrated Care System (DHTDICS): A Development and Validation Study in China
Deng, Q., Lu, J., Zeng, Z., Zheng, Y., & Liu, W. (2021) · Risk Management and Healthcare Policy · doi:10.2147/rmhp.s293144 · Cited by 8
Tradition and mortality: Evidence from twin infanticide in Africa
Fenske, J. E., & Wang, S. (2023) · Journal of Development Economics · doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103094 · Cited by 8
Evolutionary Computation in Social Propagation over Complex Networks: A Survey
Zhao, T.-F., Chen, W., Ma, X.-X., & Wu, X.-K. (2021) · Machine Intelligence Research · doi:10.1007/s11633-021-1302-3 · Cited by 8
Reciprocity and the State
Besley, T. J. (2021) · LSE Public Policy Review · doi:10.31389/lseppr.39 · Cited by 8
Behavioral and neuro-cognitive bases for emergence of norms and socially shared realities via dynamic interaction
Kuroda, K., Ogura, Y., Ogawa, A., Tamei, T., Ikeda, K., & Kameda, T. (2022) · Communications Biology · doi:10.1038/s42003-022-04329-1 · Cited by 8
Behavioral spillovers in local public good provision: An experimental study
Angelovski, A., Cagno, D. T. D., Güth, W., Marazzi, F., & Panaccione, L. (2018) · Journal of Economic Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.joep.2018.05.003 · Cited by 8
Regime Stability and the Persistence of Traditional Practices
Poyker, M. (2021) · The Review of Economics and Statistics · doi:10.1162/rest_a_01078 · Cited by 10
Institutions, Repression and the Spread of ProtestPreprint
Shadmehr, M., & Boleslavsky, R. (2016) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.2731749 · Cited by 8

Authors: Young, H. P.
Affiliations: University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author: Young, H. Peyton
ORCID: Young, H. Peyton
Venue: Annual Review of Economics
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Published: 2015-08-01
Volume: 7
Issue: 1
Pages: 359-387
ISSN: 1941-1383 (ISSN-L)
1941-1391
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115322
OpenAlex: W2112082685
Cited by: 497
References: 156
Citations by year: 2026: 47 · 2025: 71 · 2024: 73 · 2023: 67 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 56 · 2020: 43 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 4
FWCI: 8.54
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Locations: Annual Review of Economics (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic Theory and Institutions
Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
Keywords: social norms, norm dynamics, evolutionary game theory, coordination, sanctioning, signaling, conformity, contract terms, dueling, foot binding, medical treatment, contraceptive use

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

The Evolution of Social Norms

Abstract

Overview

Integrity signals

Verification

Claims the paper makes

Claims other papers make about this one

Self-check

Citations

Cites

Cited by

Related

Metadata

Record

About these checks