Aron Szekely

Feb 15, 2024 | nature.com | Aron Szekely |Gizem Arikan |Dana M. Basnight-Brown |Elizaveta Berezina |Juan Camilo Cardenas |Juan Cárdenas | +46 more

AbstractThe emergence of COVID-19 dramatically changed social behavior across societies and contexts. Here we study whether social norms also changed. Specifically, we study this question for cultural tightness (the degree to which societies generally have strong norms), specific social norms (e.g. stealing, hand washing), and norms about enforcement, using survey data from 30,431 respondents in 43 countries recorded before and in the early stages following the emergence of COVID-19.