INTRODUCTION Harmful drinking among young people is common in Australia and many other countries. Social norms and their influence on adolescents' alcohol consumption behaviours have received much research attention in recent years. However, there is limited understanding of how social norms related to alcohol are developed and transmitted across social networks and a specific tool that measure...

In this paper we study t-norms on the lattice of closed subintervals of the unit interval. Unlike for t-norms on a product lattice for which there exists a straightforward characterization of t-norms which are join-morphisms, respectively meet-morphisms, the situation is more complicated for t-norms in interval-valued fuzzy set theory. In previous papers several characterizations were given of ...

In this paper we study how to create norms in games. We consider norms as deontic statements which are used to describe prescriptions made by certain randomized signals of which the usage is to guide agents’ behavior. Such randomized signals are implemented from correlated equilibria in games. Our proposal belongs to the offline norm creation approach [ST96]. Agents’ compliance and computationa...

Two studies demonstrated that greater identification with a group was associated with more positive emotions for members who conformed with versus violated the group's norms. These effects were found with injunctive norms, which specify what members should do or what they ideally would do, but emerged less consistently with descriptive norms, which specify what members typically do. Descriptive...

Norms, to become effective, must be recognised as norms by agents. These agents must be able to accept norms but maintaining their autonomy. In this paper, the multicontext BDI agent architecture has been extended with a recognition and a normative context in order to allow agents to acquire norms from their environment and consider norms in their decision making processes.

Social norms surrounding sexuality, pregnancy, and childbearing may help guide women's health-related behaviors. In this study, we explore low-income women's perceptions of fertility-related norms by allowing women to describe their experiences with normative expectations. Semistructured interviews (n = 30) suggested that women in low-income subject positions articulate descriptive norms that g...