Zhang Wen, Liu Yunhan, Dong Yixuan, He Wanna, Yao Shiming, Xu Ziqian, Mu Yan
CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jun 2;14:1153809. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1153809. eCollection 2023.
As social animals, humans are unique to make the world function well by developing, maintaining, and enforcing social norms. As a prerequisite among these norm-related processes, learning social norms can act as a basis that helps us quickly coordinate with others, which is beneficial to social inclusion when people enter into a new environment or experience certain sociocultural changes. Given the positive effects of learning social norms on social order and sociocultural adaptability in daily life, there is an urgent need to understand the underlying mechanisms of social norm learning. In this article, we review a set of works regarding social norms and highlight the specificity of social norm learning. We then propose an integrated model of social norm learning containing three stages, i.e., pre-learning, reinforcement learning, and internalization, map a potential brain network in processing social norm learning, and further discuss the potential influencing factors that modulate social norm learning. Finally, we outline a couple of future directions along this line, including theoretical (i.e., societal and individual differences in social norm learning), methodological (i.e., longitudinal research, experimental methods, neuroimaging studies), and practical issues.
作为社会动物，人类通过制定、维护和执行社会规范来使世界良好运转，这一点独一无二。在这些与规范相关的过程中，学习社会规范作为一个先决条件，可以成为帮助我们快速与他人协调的基础，当人们进入新环境或经历某些社会文化变化时，这有利于社会融入。鉴于学习社会规范对日常生活中的社会秩序和社会文化适应性具有积极影响，迫切需要了解社会规范学习的潜在机制。在本文中，我们回顾了一系列关于社会规范的研究，并强调了社会规范学习的特殊性。然后，我们提出了一个包含三个阶段（即预学习、强化学习和内化）的社会规范学习综合模型，绘制了处理社会规范学习的潜在脑网络，并进一步讨论了调节社会规范学习的潜在影响因素。最后，我们概述了这条线上的几个未来方向，包括理论方面（即社会规范学习中的社会和个体差异）、方法方面（即纵向研究、实验方法、神经影像学研究）以及实际问题。
