Smerdon, David; Offerman, Theo; Genîzî, Ûrî - 2016
Social norms permeate society across a wide range of issues and are important to understanding how societies function …. In this paper we concentrate on 'bad' social norms - those that are inefficient or even damaging to a group. This paper … explains how bad social norms evolve and persist; our theory proposes a testable model of bad norms based on anecdotal evidence …