Fischer, R., & Karl, J. (2020). Predicting behavioral intentions to prevent or mitigate COVID-19: A meta-analysis. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ek69g

Gossip doesn't scale, mostly because rumors don't spread from village to village. As a result you can get away with violating norms when you deal with strangers.

To balance out this gossip-driven world, Arnold Kling argues we need new norms of behavior (I would argue perhaps we need new mechanisms), to incline us away from gossip.

Gossip does not scale to larger groups as an enforcement mechanism for social norms.

I appreciated this sentence because it is very anti-ableism. Ableism is a construct that enforces this idea that if your body doesn't function properly there must be something wrong with you when in reality everyone's bodies work differently. Understanding that should be the norm.

Raab, Marius Hans, Claus Christian Carbon, and Niklas Döbler. ‘A Game of COVID. Ludification as a Way to Make Sense of a Pandemic’. Preprint. PsyArXiv, 5 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cwktm.

Díaz, R., & Cova, F. (2020, April 14). Moral values and trait pathogen disgust predict compliance with official recommendations regarding COVID-19 pandemic in US samples. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5zrqx

Gelfand, M., Jackson, J. C., Pan, X., Nau, D., Dagher, M. M., & Chiu, C. (2020, April 1). Cultural and Institutional Factors Predicting the Infection Rate and Mortality Likelihood of the COVID-19 Pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m7f8a

Prof Daniel Lakens | The New Heuristics: Jumping through hoops instead of improving our science. (2020, June 17). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp1ocUuPWiU&feature=youtu.be

Smith-Keiling, Beverly L., Archana Sharma, Sheritta M. Fagbodun, Harsimranjit K. Chahal, Keyaira Singleton, Hari Gopalakrishnan, Katrina E. Paleologos, et al. “Starting the Conversation: Initial Listening and Identity Approaches to Community Cultural Wellness,.” Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education 21, no. 1 (April 10, 2020). https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.2073.

Travaglino, G. A., & Moon, C. (2020, May 26). Explaining Compliance with Social Distancing Norms during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Cultural Orientations, Trust and Self-Conscious Emotions in the US, Italy, and South Korea. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8yn5b

Lees, J. M., Cetron, J. S., Vollberg, M. C., Reggev, N., & Cikara, M. (2020, May 20). Intentions to comply with COVID-19 preventive behaviors are associated with personal beliefs, independent of perceived social norms. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/97jry

Yoeli, E., & Rand, D. G. (2020, April 17). A checklist for prosocial messaging campaigns such as COVID-19 prevention appeals. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rg2x9

How can we build some of this into social media networks to increase the level of trust and facts?

If excellence is your aim, such details--and they are countless in education--must be addressed in a thoughtful, systemic way.

This resource is very helpful in explaining, in simple and short word paragraphs (short and sweet, it is), the full context of the commons:

"The commons is not a resource. It is a resource plus a defined community and the protocols, values and norms devised by the community to manage its resources. Many resources urgently need to be managed as commons, such as the atmosphere, oceans, genetic knowledge and biodiversity."

Emphasizing the social norms and community accountability aspects of the commons are key to truly understanding the commons, it's role in society, and how it can be sustained. 

This is what we mean with the term 'sociological imagination'. Theory allows us to 'see' below the surface of society and to understand the invisible network of norms, values, structures, institutions and systems of inequality that shape individual choice and behavior. In this way, SNA should be fundamental to sociological methods.

This is fundamental to sociology as a discipline. We call it peer pressure, social support, social capital, norms, etc. This is why many who use SNA see it as the best methodology for doing sociology.

To what extent do the earliest introductions to norms play into these "rudiments of taste"?

A very crucial point here: judgment and discernment are themselves relational and contextual.

That said, we would be wise to keep in mind the Lemos piece on norms and normalcy (as it bears upon bodies) as we read the rest of this paragraph.

What Lemos might identify as norms?

Normal is a powerful, potent, and potentially pernicious black box. And it is frequently a black box deployed against rhetoric.

I want to highlight the useful understanding of norms as tools: this very quickly begins to unpack the black box that is normal. Lemos turns norms" into Morty's car battery*.

So if it threatens our understanding of what it means to be human.. is that beneficial to our ongoing research of essentially what makes us humans by constantly pushing our understanding to be deeper? or is harmful and uprooting of the interpersonal/cultural norms we've established?