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Pontus Strimling

Pontus Strimling

Researcher

Oct 27, 2026

1:24
There aren't many people advocating for more music being played out loud on the buses, are there? But are these ideas about what's acceptable the same everywhere? Pontus Strimling is a researcher at the Institute for Future Studies in Sweden, and he's been comparing social norms across roughly 90 different countries.
1:45
So we start off by saying which behaviors are not okay.
1:48
And it's three factors that we find are important.
1:51
So if it's unconsiderate to others, then it's not okay.
1:56
If it's there's no reason to do it or it's, yeah, that's a weird one.
2:00
So an example would be like reading the newspaper in a movie theater.
2:06
Like it's weird because there's no reason why anyone would want to do it.
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