Soziale Normen und Kooperation

From April 30 to May 3, this year's Social Norms Conference on Social Norms Comparison, Conflict, and Change held place at at Centro Stefano Franscini (CSF), Monte Verita, Ascona.

How do people decide when to take action on climate change—and what stops them from doing so? A new study in the prestigious American Sociological Review offers a groundbreaking look at how our beliefs about the past, present, and future of climate change influence whether we take meaningful steps—or remain on the sidelines. 

Julia Jerke, Antonia Velicu, Fabian Winter, and Heiko Rauhut explore whether publication bias in the social sciences has been aggravated due to the "publish or perish" culture in academia. They analyzed 12340 test statistics extracted from 571 papers published in 1959-2018.