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Shifting social cognition and behavior in college students through social norms

Authors: Appel, Ruth; Garcia, Sydney; Grayson, Samantha; Harari, Gabriella; Jackson, Matthew; Pei, Rui; Soh, Serena; +1 Authors

Shifting social cognition and behavior in college students through social norms

Abstract

Young adults are experiencing a mental health crisis.One factor leading to undersociality is peoples’ underestimation of how positively others will respond to their own sociality (e.g., engaging in a conversation; Epley et al., 2022). Researchers have attempted to address undersociality problems by implementing institutional curriculum, smartphone applications, and social support programs (for a review, see Osborn, Weatherburn, & French, 2021). However, to our knowledge, no study has attempted to increase sociality by correcting peoples’ perceptions of norms. Our norm-based intervention will include in-person educational sessions and informational posters. Given past studies showing that norm-correction about peers’ pro-diversity attitudes increased students’ sense of belonging (Murrar, Campbell & Brauer, 2020), we expect this part of the intervention to be effective at changing perceptions of social norms around empathy and sociality, as well as social behaviors that are downstream of these cognitions.

Keywords

FOS: Psychology, Social Psychology, Norms, Connection, Well-being, Psychology, Social Network, Intervention, Empathy, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sociality

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