SIF 2nd Cohort Fellows - Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski, CY Cergy Paris Université
Curriculum Vitae
- Education
Jun 2016, MSc, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland, Applied Mathematics
Jul 2014, BSc, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland, Theoretical Physics
- Experience
Mar 2019 – Sep 2019, Research Fellow, KU Leuven, Belgium
Oct 2017 – Jan 2020, Researcher, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Publications/Research achievements
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Research Project
Coupling the physical and social world
Social norms are rules or beliefs that guide and shape social behaviors. Rather than stated explicitly and enforced by laws, they are self-enforcing and derived by conformity. Very often people follow norms unconsciously without awareness how impactful they are in their daily lives. Thus, the emergence of social norms is a subject of broad interest, especially in sociology, social psychology, and economics.
The formation of social norms is commonly modelled as arising from social influence and homophily without consideration of the interactions with the background. However, the society is coupled with the physical environment where it develops. The change of social norm is frequently connected with some economical or behavioral costs, which may vary in time or may depend on the numbers of adopters. In the project, we are going to study agent-based models of social norms with feedback loops between the social world and the physical world that imposes such varying costs and barriers. Our aim is to understand under what conditions the norm adaptation can be achieved smoothly or abruptly, through a discontinuous crisis.