Antisocial behaviour - a comparison

So we start off by saying which behaviors are not okay.

And it's three factors that we find are important.

So if it's unconsiderate to others, then it's not okay.

If it's there's no reason to do it or it's, yeah, that's a weird one.

So an example would be like reading the newspaper in a movie theater.

Like it's weird because there's no reason why anyone would want to do it.

That's the second reason that you're breaking a norm.

And the third one is if it's vulgar.

So if it's cursing or if it's sexual in nature.

And then the countries differ in how important.

Each of these three are for that country.

So some countries that we usually call conservative, the vulgar reasons stand out more.

And in more liberal countries, these consideration of others stand out

more.

Interesting.

So it's the combination of attitudes to those three things that will then predict people's attitudes to lots of other kinds of behaviors.

Exactly.

You talked about the difference between a conservative country and a more liberal country.

Just explain that division.

Right.

So this is not the economic liberal and economic conservative, but morally liberal conservative.

We think about things like gay rights or your view of gender norms and so on.

But we find that these everyday norms follow the same pattern.

So a country where you are more likely to be okay with LGBTQ people, you are less likely to be okay with loud behavior that disturbs others.

Okay, so people who are liberal on social issues... tend to be tougher on kind of manners?