I am a Research Director at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy in Rome, where I am the coordinator of the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS). I am Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linkoping University and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.
My research focuses on the emergence, enforcement, change and decay of social norms and their effects on cooperation and conflicts. My research topics include cooperation, altruism, honesty, as well as bad norms and misinformation. I use theoretical and computational models, combined with on-line and laboratory experiments, surveys and big data to answer these and related questions about social norms.

I am a Research Director at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy in Rome, where I am the coordinator of the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS). I am Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Analytical Sociology at Linkoping University and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden.

My research focuses on the emergence, enforcement, change and decay of social norms and their effects on cooperation and conflicts. My research topics include cooperation, altruism, honesty, as well as bad norms and misinformation.

I use theoretical and computational models, combined with on-line and laboratory experiments, surveys and big data to answer these and related questions about social norms.

Selected publications

Selected publications

Popular press

Meiske, B., Álvarez-Benjumea, A., Andrighetto, G., Polizzi, E. (2024) Nudging punishment against sharing of fake news, European Economic Review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014292124001247?via%3di Hub

Gavrilets, S., Tverskoi, D., Wang, N., Wang, X., Ozaita, J.,  Boyu, Z., Sanchez, A., Andrighetto, G. (Forthcoming) Co-evolution of behavior and beliefs in social dilemmas: estimating material, social, cognitive and cultural determinants. Evolutionary Human Sciences

Andrighetto, G., Szekely, A., Guido, A. Gelfand, M. […] Eriksson, K. (2024) Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries. Nat Communications 15.

Andrighetto G, Gavrilets S, Gelfand M, Mace R, Vriens E. (2024) Social Norm Change: Drivers and Consequences. Phil.Trans. R. Soc. B

Vriens, E. Andrighetto, G., Tummolini, L. (2024) Risk, sanctions and norm change: the formation and decay of social distancing norms. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

Vriens, E., Tummolini, L., Andrighetto, G. (2023) Vaccine-hesitant people misperceive the social norm of vaccination, PNAS Nexus, 2 (5)132

Przepiorka, W., Szekely, A., Andrighetto, G., Diekmann, A. & Tummolini, L (2022) How Norms Emerge from Conventions (and Change). Socius, 8, 1-16

How risk makes us more cooperative

22 September 2021 Nature Italy

Anche la Polizia gioca ai Videogames
1 March 2019 Airone
Obbedire o no, ce lo dicono le norme
15 January 2014 Almanacco della Scienza CNR

Meiske, B., Álvarez-Benjumea, A., Andrighetto, G., Polizzi, E. (2024) Nudging punishment against sharing of fake news, European Economic Review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014292124001247?via%3di Hub

Gavrilets, S., Tverskoi, D., Wang, N., Wang, X., Ozaita, J.,  Boyu, Z., Sanchez, A., Andrighetto, G. (Forthcoming) Co-evolution of behavior and beliefs in social dilemmas: estimating material, social, cognitive and cultural determinants. Evolutionary Human Sciences

Andrighetto, G., Szekely, A., Guido, A. Gelfand, M. […] Eriksson, K. (2024) Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries. Nat Communications 15.

How risk makes us more cooperative

22 September 2021 Nature Italy

Anche la Polizia gioca ai Videogames
1 March 2019 Airone
Obbedire o no, ce lo dicono le norme
15 January 2014 Almanacco della Scienza CNR

Meiske, B., Álvarez-Benjumea, A., Andrighetto, G., Polizzi, E. (2024) Nudging punishment against sharing of fake news, European Economic Review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014292124001247?via%3di Hub

Gavrilets, S., Tverskoi, D., Wang, N., Wang, X., Ozaita, J.,  Boyu, Z., Sanchez, A., Andrighetto, G. (Forthcoming) Co-evolution of behavior and beliefs in social dilemmas: estimating material, social, cognitive and cultural determinants. Evolutionary Human Sciences

Andrighetto, G., Szekely, A., Guido, A. Gelfand, M. […] Eriksson, K. (2024) Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries. Nat Communications 15.

Andrighetto G, Gavrilets S, Gelfand M, Mace R, Vriens E. (2024) Social Norm Change: Drivers and Consequences. Phil.Trans. R. Soc. B

Vriens, E. Andrighetto, G., Tummolini, L. (2024) Risk, sanctions and norm change: the formation and decay of social distancing norms. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

Vriens, E., Tummolini, L., Andrighetto, G. (2023) Vaccine-hesitant people misperceive the social norm of vaccination, PNAS Nexus, 2 (5)132

How risk makes us more cooperative

22 September 2021 Nature Italy

Anche la Polizia gioca ai Videogames
1 March 2019 Airone
Obbedire o no, ce lo dicono le norme
15 January 2014 Almanacco della Scienza CNR

Popular press

Popular press

How risk makes us more cooperative

22 September 2021
Nature Italy

Anche la Polizia gioca ai Videogames
1 March 2019
Airone
Obbedire o no, ce lo dicono le norme
15 January 2014
Almanacco della Scienza CNR

News

Workshop

Norms and Behavioral Change for Climate Crisis

On April 22nd and 23rd 2024, Giulia Andrighetto and Eva Vriens organised a workshop on social norms for climate action at Villa San Michele, Capri. The purpose of the workshop is to get together with an interdisciplinary group of scholars to...

Special Issue

The Theme Issue “Social norm change: drivers and consequences.” (edited by Andrighetto, G., Gavrilets, S., Gelfand, M., Mace, R., Vriens, E.) on Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B contains 14 contributions that present state-of-the-art approaches to understand what generates social norm change and how this impacts our societies. Contributions give insight into (i) the identification of norms, norm change and their effect on behaviour; (ii) drivers and consequences of spontaneous norm change; and (iii) how norm change can be engineered to promote desired behavioural change.

Grant

Grant Norms@Risk from the Italian Science Fund of the Ministry of University and Research to study social norms and cooperation in situations of collective risk (1.2K, 2024-2029)

Grant Norms@Risk from the Italian Science Fund of the Ministry of University and Research to study social norms and cooperation in situations of collective risk (1.2K, 2024-2029)

Workshop

Social Norm Change: Drivers and Consequences

On June 16-17 2022, Giulia Andrighetto, Eva Vriens, and Nanda Wijermans (IFFS) organise a workshop on Social Norm Change at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm. Institute for Future Studies Holländargatan 13 Stockholm Understanding the emergence, persistence, and effects...

Research

Talks

NoBeC Talk 2023 – Dynamics of Social Norms Under Collective Risk
13 October 2023
Global challenges like the climate crisis and pandemic outbreaks require collective responses that quickly adapt to changing circumstances. Social norms are potential solutions, but only if they are capable of adapting themselves.
DySoC / Exeter Webinar Series on Evolution and Social Systems
21 October 2021
DySoC / Exeter Webinar Series on Evolution and Social Systems
NoBeC Talk 2023 – Dynamics of Social Norms Under Collective Risk
13 October 2023
Global challenges like the climate crisis and pandemic outbreaks require collective responses that quickly adapt to changing circumstances. Social norms are potential solutions, but only if they are capable of adapting themselves.
DySoC / Exeter Webinar Series on Evolution and Social Systems
21 October 2021
DySoC / Exeter Webinar Series on Evolution and Social Systems
Understanding human cooperation through natural and artificial data
16 September 2020
Invited Speaker @ ESSA 2020
Understanding human cooperation through natural and artificial data
16 September 2020
Invited Speaker @ ESSA 2020
Agent based simulations of organized crime and terrorist recruitment models
30 September 2019-20
Agent based simulations of organized crime and terrorist recruitment models
30 September 2019-20

Projects

How do human norms form and change? 

Project funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Goal of the project is to build well-founded models for how (harmful) norms are created and spread, which can be used by decision makers...

Contact

Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

Address: via Gian Domenico Romagnosi 18/A, 00185, Rome, Italy
Email: giulia.andrighetto@istc.cnr.it

Institute for Futures Studies

Address: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, Sweden
Email: giulia.andrighetto@gmail.com
Telephone: +46 (0) 8-402 12 00

The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)

Linköping University Address: Campus Norrköping, Kopparhammaren 7, Linkoping, Sweden

Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

Address: via Gian Domenico Romagnosi 18/A, 00185, Rome, Italy

Email: giulia.andrighetto@istc.cnr.it

Institute for Futures Studies

Address: Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, Sweden
Email: giulia.andrighetto@gmail.com
Telephone: +46 (0) 8-402 12 00

The Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS)

Linköping University

Address: Campus Norrköping, Kopparhammaren 7,
Linkoping, Sweden