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Title: Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures
Authors: Eriksson, K
Strimling, P
Vartanova, I
Simpson, B
Persson, M
Abdi, KA
Ad, N
Aldashev, A
Ali, HM
Alì, M
Aliyev, K
Lin, M-J
Medhioub, I
Teixeira, MLM
Merchán Tamayo, JP
Mohammed, LL
Alrefaee, YMHA
Parvez, MS
Soboleva, N
Moore, SN
Moraligil, B
Van Lange, PAM
Muradzada, N
Nanda, H
Nastina, E
Nejat, P
Nettle, D
Nipassa, OJA
Noe-Grijalva, M
Ntampaka, P
Sonessa, DE
Pasin, GL
Ayikwa, CL
Alvarado Ortiz, AE
Ntone, R
Nussinson, R
Oljača, M
Pedović, I
Andersson, PA
Pérez de León, P
Perez Floriano, LR
Choi, H-S
Stanley, SK
Baños-Chaparro, J
Pop-Jordanova, N
Portillo, JR
Potang, A
Quesada-Román, A
Raver, JL
Rodrigues, RB
Rodríguez-Romero, JD
Romanò, S
Andrighetto, G
Ross, RM
Barrera, D
Stoyanova, K
Contreras-Ibáñez, CC
Rosun, N
Sadiković, S
San Martin, A
Arikan, G
Čorkalo, D
Stoyanov, D
Takemura, K
Glöckner, A
Barsyte, J
Thøgersen, J
Tiliouine, H
Tung, H
Ulambayar, T
Uzdavinyte, EM
Waechter, R
Wang, Y-T
Wu, J
Cruz-Torres, CE
Aruta, JJBR
Batkeyev, B
Graf, S
Yambio, BM
Yankson, E
Yeh, K-H
Czakó, A
Grigoryan, A
Batool, A
Berezina, E
Kaminskiene, Z
Bimina, SN
Björnstjerna, M
Blumen, S
Boski, P
Boštjančič, E
Boum, Y
Briguglio, M
Bruno, K
Growiec, K
de Zoysa, P
Kapoor, H
Bui, HTT
Caycho-Rodríguez, T
Chen, Y
Chiweshe, MK
Demetrovics, Z
Dinić, BM
Drače, S
El-Haddad, RW
Lobos Rivera, ME
Haas, BW
Kapović, I
Engelmann, JB
Escudero Pérez, I
Euh, H
Fang, X
Frank, C
Freidin, E
Fulop, M
Gamsakhurdia, V
García Jiménez, MA
Gardarsdottir, RB
Karim, G
Haddock, G
López-López, W
Gavreliuc, A
Gill, CMHD
Gjoneska, B
Hadjisolomou, SP
Maloku, E
Hadžiahmetović, N
Haji Mohammad Ali, MH
Onyedire, NG
Kawakami, K
Hakoköngäs, E
Halama, P
Hapunda, G
Hartanto, A
Hazrati, M
Herbas-Torrico, BC
Holka, S
Hřebíčková, M
Mandal, M
Hunter, JA
Khachatryan, N
Onyishi, IE
Ibikounle, M
Ilisko, D
Lind Hjördísar Jónsdóttir, H
Manhique, BA
Panagiotopoulou, P
Kirschner, JB
Kiruja, J
Smederevac, S
Kiyonari, T
Kohút, M
Kousar, S
Krasniqi, B
Lado, L
Landa-Blanco, M
Landon, B
Lep, Ž
Alvarez, DP
Mbende, NM
Smith, SJ
Leslie, LM
Li, Y
Liik, K
Keywords: human behaviour;sociology
Issue Date: 7-Oct-2025
Publisher: Springer Nature
Citation: Eriksson, K. et al. (2025) 'Everyday norms have become more permissive over time and vary across cultures', Communications Psychology, 3 (1), 145, pp. 1 - 14. doi: 10.1038/s44271-025-00324-4.
Abstract: Every social situation that people encounter in their daily lives comes with a set of unwritten rules about what behavior is considered appropriate or inappropriate. These everyday norms can vary across societies: some societies may have more permissive norms in general or for certain behaviors, or for certain behaviors in specific situations. In a preregistered survey of 25,422 participants across 90 societies, we map societal differences in 150 everyday norms and show that they can be explained by how societies prioritize individualizing moral foundations such as care and liberty versus binding moral foundations such as purity. Specifically, societies with more individualistic morality tend to have more permissive norms in general (greater liberty) and especially for behaviors deemed vulgar (less purity), but they exhibit less permissive norms for behaviors perceived to have negative consequences in specific situations (greater care). By comparing our data with available data collected twenty years ago, we find a global pattern of change toward more permissive norms overall but less permissive norms for the most vulgar and inconsiderate behaviors. This study explains how social norms vary across behaviors, situations, societies, and time.
Description: Data availability: All data and materials generated and/or analyzed in this study, including the raw data underlying the figures and tables, are available at OSF (https://osf.io/sh4rb/, https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/SH4RB).
Code availability: The R syntax for all analyses are available at OSF (https://osf.io/sh4rb/, https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/SH4RB).
URI: https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00324-4
Other Identifiers: ORCiD: Kimmo Eriksson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7164-0924
ORCiD: Nachita Rosun https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3943-8627
Article number: 145
Appears in Collections:Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers

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