Sociocognitive Approach to Social Norms

Nicole Dubois is Professor of Psychology at the University of Nancy, France. She is the author of pivotal books and papers in the areas of social norms of judgment and of evaluative knowledge, including The Psychology of Control (1987) and The Norm of Internality and Liberalism (1994).

• Jerald Jellison ForewordNicole Dubois Introduction: The Concept of Norm1. Benoit Testé Conformity and Deviance2. Daniel Gilibert and Laurent Cambon Paradigms of the Sociocognitive Approach3. Stéphane Jouffre The Procedures of Measure: Questionnaires and Scales4. Nicole Dubois, Florence Loose, Maria-Cristina Matteuci and Patrizia Selleri Sociocognitive Development: Acquisition of the Normativeness of Internality5. Jean-Léon Beauvois Judgment Norms, Social Utility and Individualism6. Valérie Le Floch and Alain Somat Norm of Internality, Social Utility of Internal Explanations and Cognitive Functioning7. Jacques Py and Anne Ginet Knowledge of General Social Norms: Normative Clearsightedness8. Cyril Tarquinio, Tamara Léonova, Philippe Robert and Gérard Guingouain Normativity and Evaluative Knowledge9. Pascal Pansu, Pascal Bressoux and Claude Louche Theory of the Social Norm of Internality Applied to Education and OrganizationsNicole Dubois and Jean-Léon Beauvois Conclusion: Some Bases for a Sociocognitive Approach to Judgment Norms