Ugur Mert Yasar

Research

Ugur Mert Yasar speaking in a group discussion at the Center for Decision Research
Center for Decision Research, Chicago Booth. Photo: Jason Smith.

Drafts of unpublished papers are available on request: umy@chicagobooth.edu.

Working Papers

The Global Architecture of Social Norms: Content and Enforcement

Yasar, U. M., Jackson, J. C., Yao, H., Kowal, M. & Sorokowski, P.

Job Market Paper · data analysis in progress
Abstract

Societies differ not only in how strongly norms are enforced, but in who enforces them. We ask participants in 92 societies, surveyed in 44 languages, to describe rules and expectations in their own society, and for each one to report who ensures compliance, how widely it is followed, and how costly violation is. Using multilingual sentence embeddings, we build a bottom-up taxonomy of what societies regulate, then characterize each society's enforcement architecture: which agents are named — public institutions, private institutions, religious authorities, close networks, the broader community — on which domains, with what perceived compliance and severity.

Pre-registration (OSF)

Rulebooks and Relationships: An Institutional Model of Cultural Tightness

Yasar, U. M., Jackson, J. C., Sahakari, S. & Götz, F.

Invited proposal · Perspectives on Psychological Science

Kin is King: Familial Status Inflation in Non-WEIRD Cultures

Yasar, U. M. & Jackson, J. C.

Complete manuscript available on request

Social Learning Can Produce Costly Status Quo Preferences Without a Status Quo Bias

Jackson, J. C., Yasar, U. M., Liu, Y. & Dorison, C.

Complete manuscript available on request

Work in Progress

Deconstructing Cultural Tightness: Formal and Informal Dimensions of Norm Enforcement Across 92 Cultures

Yasar, U. M., Jackson, J. C., Yao, H., Kowal, M. & Sorokowski, P.

Data analysis in progress

Cultural Tightness-Looseness Revisited After 15 Years: Updated Scores and Correlates Across 92 Cultures

Yasar, U. M., Jackson, J. C., Yao, H., Kowal, M. & Sorokowski, P.

Data analysis in progress

Argumentativeness as a Cultural Trait: Self-Reports and Culture-Reports Across 92 Countries

Yasar, U. M., Talhelm, T., Wei, L., Kowal, M. & Sorokowski, P.

Data analysis in progress

Substitutes or Complements? Formal and Informal Enforcement in a Public Goods Game

Yasar, U. M., Zhang, S. & Jackson, J. C.

Pilot data analysis

Enemy at the Board: How Political Tension Predicts Unsportsmanlike Behavior in International Chess

Yasar, U. M., Jackson, J. C. & Pope, D.

Data analysis in progress