How do individuals learn and perceive social norms across situations and groups? We propose a three-stage process of social norm perception in which individuals first enter situations with a prior expectation of social norms that may apply, then they encounter and weigh norm information, and finally they integrate this norm information with their prior expectation. In addition, we discuss definitions of social norms, the motivations for learning social norms, and different categorization schemes for different types of norms based on content. This framework further suggests implications for when social norms should be more likely to be misperceived, and what kinds of social norm information should be most influential in one’s perception of the norm.

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社会规范感知的理论框架


个人如何学习和感知不同情境和群体的社会规范？我们提出了一个社会规范感知的三个阶段过程，在这个过程中，个体首先进入对可能适用的社会规范的先验期望的情境，然后他们遇到并权衡规范信息，最后他们将这些规范信息与他们先前的期望相结合。此外，我们还讨论了社会规范的定义、学习社会规范的动机，以及基于内容的不同类型的规范的不同分类方案。该框架进一步暗示了何时社会规范更容易被误解，以及什么样的社会规范信息应该对一个人对规范的感知产生最大的影响。