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The Dissenter · 2026-02-02 · 47 min · 5,564 words

#1210 Cristina Bicchieri: What Are Social Norms, and How do They Change?

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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Christina Biccieri. She's S.J. Patterson Harvey Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

And today we're going to talk about social norms from the perspective of game theory, how to foster social change and some other related topics. So, Dr. Biccieri, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thank you.

So before getting into details here, first of all, what are social norms? How do you approach them in your work? Okay, good question. If you look uh, you know, at various definitions in the social sciences, which I did when I started getting interested in you know, uh defining social norms, you find a variety of definitions from common behavior, okay, to uh clusters of expectations, etc.

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