What are team norms and why are they important? A talented colleague, Jennie Glazer, recently introduced me to the power of team norms as a tool for greater team success. (Working agreements is ...

Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly versatile—from route planning to text translation, it has long become a standard tool. But it is not enough for AI to simply deliver useful results: it ...

There are lots of behaviors that society suggests are appropriate in some circumstances, but not others. You can take a nap on the couch in your home, but you wouldn’t curl up for a nap on a sofa in ...

Among animals, Homo sapiens is unique in its capacity for widespread cooperation and prosocial behavior among large and genetically heterogeneous groups of individuals. This ultra-sociality figures ...

I’m delighted to be writing a blog about the power of social influence. As a professor, I teach and conduct research about social norms, meaning the unwritten rules that shape our behavior. But on a ...

Where do social norms come from? Part of the answer must surely lie in such norms' ability to support individual adaptive success in local ecologies. This theme is dominant in analyses of social ...

New research has found Gen Z men may have more in common with the baby boomer generation – rather than their millennial and Gen X peers. Gen Z men’s views of gender norms are more similar to the views ...

President Xi Jinping appears set to postpone a party meeting held every five years to chart his nation’s long-term reform agenda, the latest example of the Chinese leader disregarding decades-old ...