<div dir="ltr"><div>*Apologies for cross-posstings*</div><div><br></div>Dear IACM Friends,<div> <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div> Please spread the word to people you think would be interested in submitting to our special issue on social norms. Thanks much!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Michele </div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Special Issue on Social Norms and Behavior Change for <span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px"><i>The Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization</i><span></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">(Guest Editors: C. Bicchieri, E. Dimant, M. Gelfand and S. Sonderegger)<span></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px"><span> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Although social norms research has a long-standing interdisciplinary tradition, it’s only recently been examined in a variety of economic domains, such as corruption, environmental conservation, and charitable giving, among others, and also as a way to augment the effectiveness of nudging in the form of so-called <i>norm-nudges</i> (for a recent discussion see Bicchieri & Dimant, 2019). Social scientists have also now developed a vested interest in understanding the impact of social norms on choices, how social norms may emerge out of collective behaviors and even how compliance with norms may decline and eventually lead to norm disappearance (e.g., Bicchieri, 2016; Gelfand, 2019; Bicchieri, Dimant, Gächter & Nosenzo, 2020; Bicchieri, Dimant & Sonderegger, 2020).<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">In this special issue, we will bring together cutting-edge research from economics and adjacent fields including, but not limited to, psychology and sociology, to illuminate the social dynamics surrounding the development, sustainability, violation or demise of social norms, and how these mechanisms can be exploited to ultimately achieve positive behavioral change. Our objective is to cover a broad spectrum of approaches to social norms, including theoretical, empirical, and experimental research at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, intergroup, and cultural levels of analysis.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">We envision contributions linking social norms to networks, emotions, power and status, identity, group dynamics, intergroup relations, and culture, among numerous other possible directions. We hope the collected papers will provide a comprehensive account of the scientific state of the art with regards to the questions of how social norms arise, how they are maintained, how they influence behavior, when they are obeyed and when they are broken, and how these mechanisms can inform policy-makers wishing to influence individual behavior.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Special Issue Guest Editors</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px"><span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">Cristina Bicchieri, University of Pennsylvania (</span><span lang="X-NONE"><a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">cb36@sas.upenn.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">) <span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">Eugen Dimant, University of Pennsylvania (</span><span lang="X-NONE"><a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">edimant@sas.upenn.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">) <span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland (</span><span lang="X-NONE"><a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">mgelfand@umd.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.866666793823242px;font-family:Calibri">) <span></span></span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Wingdings">§<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">  </span></span>Silvia Sonderegger, University of Nottingham (<a>Silvia.Sonderegger@nottingham.ac.uk</a>) <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px"><span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Questions pertaining to the special issue should be directed to Eugen Dimant.<span></span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Submission Information<span></span></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Guide for Authors can be found in </span><a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-and-organization/0167-2681/guide-for-authors" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-and-organization/0167-2681/guide-for-authors</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Papers for the special issue should be submitted through the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization submission system (</span><a href="https://ees.elsevier.com/jebo/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">https://ees.elsevier.com/jebo/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">). In the submission system, please choose article type ‘Social Norms and Behavior Change’. Submissions will be subject to the normal peer review process.<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16.866666793823242px;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:justify;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">Submissions for the special issue begin on <u>September 1, 2020</u>, with the final deadline for submission being <u>January 31, 2021</u></span></b><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.399999618530273px">.<span></span></span></i></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Michele J. Gelfand<br><div><div><div>Distinguished University Professor</div><div>Department of Psychology</div><div>University of Maryland</div><div>College Park, MD 20742</div><div><a href="http://www.michelegelfand.com" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.michelegelfand.com</a></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_J._Gelfand" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_J._Gelfand</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>RULE MAKERS, RULE BREAKERS:</div><div>How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World  </div><div>Click <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rule-Makers-Breakers-Tight-Cultures/dp/1501152939/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529529657&sr=8-1&keywords=Rule+makers+rule+breakers&dpID=51D6661OdSL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">here</a> for more information </div></div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781501152931/rule-makers-rule-breakers-9781501152931_hr.jpg" width="63" height="96"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Michele J. Gelfand<br><div><div><div>Distinguished University Professor</div><div>Department of Psychology</div><div>University of Maryland</div><div>College Park, MD 20742</div><div><a href="http://www.michelegelfand.com" target="_blank">www.michelegelfand.com</a></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_J._Gelfand" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_J._Gelfand</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>RULE MAKERS, RULE BREAKERS:</div><div>How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World  </div><div>Click <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Rule-Makers-Breakers-Tight-Cultures/dp/1501152939/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529529657&sr=8-1&keywords=Rule+makers+rule+breakers&dpID=51D6661OdSL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch" target="_blank">here</a> for more information </div></div><div><br></div><div><img src="https://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781501152931/rule-makers-rule-breakers-9781501152931_hr.jpg" width="63" height="96"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>