Social norms shift as potential beachgoers stay home. A view of the empty Santa Monica beach at sunset due to the new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Santa Monica, United States on March 27, 2020.

As our unwritten social constructs change and evolve over time, as a 2024 study suggests, there's certainly expectations and social norms that no longer serve our collective well-being, but rather, ...

There are many norms governing our everyday social interactions. For example, in the United States, it is normative to: Allow some personal space between you and other people (often two or three feet ...

Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, HEC Montréal, and University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney published a new paper in the Journal of Marketing that performs a meta-analysis of ...

Imagine a world where social norms didn't exist. Would it be chaos, or would you finally be able to relax? You would no longer have to worry about watching what you say around colleagues or feel ...

The Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Global Violence Prevention will held a 2-day public workshop on October 29-30, 2015 to explore the cultural and social norms that underlie the acceptance of ...

Kendall is President at Fairwinds working to help companies accelerate Kubernetes and cloud native technology adoption. In trying to learn other languages, I have experienced firsthand how common it ...

In the world of cybersecurity, we often hear the saying, "It's not a matter of if, but when." While this is said mostly in reference to security breaches, it could also be used to remind us that ...

Sunita Sah is a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. The Academy of Management is a funding partner of The Conversation US. President Donald Trump regularly uses blatant violations of long ...