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      The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups

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          People's attitudes towards social norms play a crucial role in understanding group behaviour. Norm psychology accounts focus on processes of norm internalization that influence people's norm-following attitudes but pay considerably less attention to social identity and group identification processes. Social identity theory in contrast studies group identity but works with a relatively thin and instrumental notion of social norms. We argue that to best understand both sets of phenomena, it is important to integrate the insights of both approaches. Social status, social identity and social norms are considered separate phenomena in evolutionary accounts. We discuss assumptions and views that support this separation, and suggest an integrated view of our own. We argue that we should be open to the early origins of human social complexity, and conjecture that the longer that the human social world involved multi-level societies the more probable it is that norm psychology and social identity interacted in rich ways.

          This article is part of the theme issue ‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions’.

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                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Journal
                Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
                Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
                RSTB
                royptb
                Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
                The Royal Society
                0962-8436
                1471-2970
                March 13, 2023
                January 23, 2023
                January 23, 2023
                : 378
                : 1872 , Theme issue ‘Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions’ compiled and edited by Yohay Carmel, Ayelet Shavit, Ehud Lamm and Eörs Szathmáry
                : 20210412
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] The Science, Technology, and Society program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, , Cambridge, MA, USA
                [ 2 ] The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, , Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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                One contribution of 18 to a theme issue ‘ Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions’.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6867-3701
                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2980-7847
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                10.1098/rstb.2021.0412
                9869443
                36688389
                b590aaa8-a78a-41d6-aa66-61e63b77786b
                © 2023 The Authors.

                Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.

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