ChatGPT, the revolutionary new AI chatbot, reflects American norms and values – even when queried about other countries and cultures. The mismatch has been demonstrated in research from the University ...

When humans interact with each other and engage in everyday activities, they typically follow various undefined rules, also known as social norms. These rules include things like greeting ...

Cultural values and traditions differ across the globe, but large language models (LLMs), used in text-generating programs such as ChatGPT, have a tendency to reflect values from English-speaking and ...

Social norms evolve as society moves forward. They reflect changes in values, technology, and culture, and many normal behaviors today were once considered improper or immoral. Every era has its ...

Human development and socialization unfold within cultural contexts that shape cognition, emotion and behaviour from infancy through adulthood. Cultural norms and values determine parenting ideals, ...

This post was written by Masumi Pradhan, a second-year BSc Applied Psychology student at NMIMS, Mumbai. Marriages, as social institutions, are almost always profoundly influenced by cultural norms and ...

Divorce, the legal dissolution of marriage, can be driven by a variety of factors, ranging from changes in the economic status or health conditions of spouses to contrasting values. The end of a ...

Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community's norms are looser. In turn, norm violations are more accepted, and there is a reduced willingness to police ...

Humans are unique among animals in that their behavior fundamentally depends on social norms, or “learned behavioral standards shared and enforced by a community” [1, p. 218], which in themselves are ...

Business interactions rely on communication. Cross-cultural business was once reserved for large corporations, but in today’s global economy, many small and medium-sized businesses face a critical ...

How do children learn to cooperate with others? A new cross-cultural study suggests that the answer depends less on universal rules and more on the social norms surrounding the child. In the study, ...

Most of us grow up with a basic understanding of right and wrong. We are taught to tell the truth, not to steal, to respect others even when we disagree with them, and to judge people as individuals ...