The Psychology of Social Norms

Sherif, M. (1936). The Psychology of Social Norms.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1936

Link

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.128678

Cited from

behavioral_economics, psychology, sociology_anthropology

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4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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Primes

• Conformity
  • Sherif (1936) demonstrated the bare skeleton of the pattern using the autokinetic effect, in which subjects with no objective referent converged on a shared group norm for an ambiguous stimulus and then carried that norm forward even when tested alone — establishing that the pull persists after the group is gone.

    This sourceAutokinetic-effect paradigm showing group-formed norms persist in individual judgment after the group is removed.

• Groupthink
  • It is not conformity generally — Asch's conformity paradigm involves individuals adjusting publicly stated beliefs under majority pressure, and Sherif's earlier autokinetic-norm paradigm

    This sourceUses the autokinetic-effect paradigm to show that group-formed norms persist in individual judgment after the group is removed (internalization), even up to a year later.

• Herding Behavior
  • T3: Private Signal vs Social Conformity Penalty.

    This sourceFoundational social-psychology study using the autokinetic-effect paradigm to show that group-formed norms persist in individual judgment after the group is removed.

• Social Norms
  • Sherif's early conformity experiments demonstrated that

    This sourceFoundational social-psychology study using the autokinetic-effect paradigm to show that group-formed norms persist in individual judgment after the group is removed.

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