Maladaptive social norms, cultural progress, and the free-energy principle

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43 (2020)
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Abstract

Veissière and collaborators ground their account of culture and social norms in the free-energy principle, which postulates that the utility of an outcome is equivalent to its probability. This equivalence would mean that their account entails that complying with social norms has always adaptive value. But, this is false, because many social norms are obviously maladaptive.

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Matteo Colombo
Tilburg University