On April 22nd and 23rd 2024, Giulia Andrighetto and Eva Vriens organised a workshop on social norms for climate action […]
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 also Senior Researcher of Institute of Future Studies, Sweden.
My research focuses on the emergence, enforcement, change of social norms and their effect in sustaining behavior in contexts characterized by collective risks, such as pandemics and climate crises. Recently, I have become interested in understanding how cooperation and social norms evolve within hybrid collectives, composed of both humans and artificial agents.
To address these issues and develop models of norm emergence and change, I combine theoretical approaches, empirical surveys, big data, experiments with humans and artificial agents, and agent-based simulations.
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 also Senior Researcher of Institute of Future Studies, Sweden.
My research focuses on the emergence, enforcement, change of social norms and their effect in sustaining behavior in contexts characterized by collective risks, such as pandemics and climate crises. Recently, I have become interested in understanding how cooperation and social norms evolve within hybrid collectives, composed of both humans and artificial agents.
To address these issues and develop models of norm emergence and change, I combine theoretical approaches, empirical surveys, big data, experiments with humans and artificial agents, and agent-based simulations.
Selected publications
Selected publications
Popular press
Vriens, E., Andrighetto, G. (2025) Why social norms may fail us when we need them most. Current Opinion in Psychology, 62,101975
Szekely, A., Tummolini, L., Vriens, E., Andrighetto, G. (2025) Social norm strength and norm change. Current Opinion in Psychology, 64, 102040
Guido, A., Tverskoi, D., Gavrilets, S., Sánchez, A., Andrighetto, G. (2025) Nudging or nagging: The perils of persuasion, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 240, 107293
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 Commun 15. https://doi.org/10.
Szekely, A., Lipari, F., Antonioni, A. Paolucci, M., Sanchez, A., Tummolini, L. Andrighetto, G. (2021). Evidence from a long-term experiment that collective risks change social norms and promote cooperation. Nature Communications 12, p.5452
How risk makes us more cooperative
22 September 2021
Nature Italy
How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science
17 June 2020 NEWS FEATURE, NatureAnche la Polizia gioca ai Videogames
1 March 2019 AironeHonest’ Swedes as likely to fudge taxes as crafty Italians
13 April 2016 The LocalObbedire o no, ce lo dicono le norme
15 January 2014 Almanacco della Scienza CNRPopular press
Popular press
How risk makes us more cooperative
22 September 2021 Nature Italy
How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science
17 June 2020 NEWS FEATURE, NatureAnche la Polizia gioca ai Videogames
1 March 2019 AironeHonest’ Swedes as likely to fudge taxes as crafty Italians
13 April 2016 The LocalObbedire o no, ce lo dicono le norme
15 January 2014 Almanacco della Scienza CNRNews
Poolpo is an online platform accessible via smartphones and computers that connects researchers and volunteers to take part in economic and social studies, online or in person (https://www.poolpo.it/
Poolpo has been developed by Giulia Andrighetto (ISTC-CNR), Maria Bigoni (UniBo) and Eva Vriens (ISTC-CNR), in collaboration with Indici Opponibili, the project’s technical partner. It is a joint initiative of FOSSR (Fostering Open Science in Social Science Research) and GRINS (Growing Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable), projects funded by Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR).
Special Issue
The Current Opinion in Psychology Special Issue “Norm Change,” edited by C. Bicchieri, G. Andrighetto, and M. Gelfand, contains 30 articles from diverse fields that showcase recent advances in social norms research. https://www.sciencedirect.com/
Workshop
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 (FIS) 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 […]
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
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
Projects
Norms&Risk: Do social norms help dealing with collective threats?
Project funded by the Swedish Research Council. It studies the behavior of people in the face of risk and asks how social […]
Covid-19 effects on social norms and collaboration
Project funded by Formas Swedish Research Council. It aims to examine how Covid-19 has changed social patterns and people’s ability to […]
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 […]
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
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