Most studies on norms and COVID-19 have ignored the group-based dynamic nature of normative influence where self-relevant salient groups might emerge change along with their impact health behaviours. The current research seeks to explore these issues using a three-wave longitudinal design representative sample Australians (Nwave 1 = 3024) two group sources potential (neighbourhood national grou...

This article identifies four factors for consideration in norms-based research to enhance the predictive ability of theoretical models. First, it makes the distinction between perceived and collective norms and between descriptive and injunctive norms. Second, the article addresses the role of important moderators in the relationship between descriptive norms and behaviors, including outcome ex...

Normative multiagent systems as a research area can be defined as the intersection of normative systems and multiagent systems. Since the use of norms is a key element of human social intelligence, norms may be essential too for artificial agents that collaborate with humans, or that are to display behavior comparable to human intelligent behavior. By integrating norms and individual intelligen...

Establishing a shared set of norms under run time can be problematic. This paper exmines one issue, viz. The communication of norms as feed-back on decision making of individual members of the group. One issue is of major concern, which is the norm set the agents use initially. The effects of varying agent autonomy and initial norm set were examined in a simulation study. It was found that the ...