Giulia Andrighetto PhD in Philosophy, University of Rome La Sapienza, 2007. She is a Research Director at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the National Research Council of Italy in Rome, where she is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS). She is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm, Sweden. Giulia held prior academic appointments at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute (2012-2017) and as Max Weber Fellow also at the European University Institute (2010-2011).
Her research focuses on the emergence, enforcement, change of social norms and their effect in sustaining behavior in contexts characterized by collective risks, such as pandemics and climate crises. To address these issues and develop models of norm emergence and change, she combines theoretical approaches, empirical surveys, big data, experiments with humans and arificial agents, and agent-based simulations. Recently, she has become interested in understanding how cooperation and social norms evolve within hybrid collectives, composed of both humans and artificial agents.
She has been the Principal Investigator of several projects, receiving funding from the European Commission, the Italian Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Wallenberg Foundation. She is now the PI of the
Norms@Risk project from the Italian Science Fund of the Ministry of University and Research to study social norms and cooperation in situations of collective risk (2024-2029).
Within the Fostering Open Science in Social Science Research (FOSSR) project, funded by the PNRR, she collaborated with Maria Bigoni and Eva Vriens on the development of Poolpo (www.poolpo.it), a platform for recruiting participants for social science studies, both online and in person.
More info on: https://www.giuliandrighetto.com/
Latest & Selected Publications:
Vriens, E., Andrighetto, G. (2025) Why social norms may fail us when we need them most. Current Opinion in Psychology, 62,101975
Szekely, A., Tummolini, L., Vriens, E., Andrighetto, G. (2025) Social norm strength and norm change. Current Opinion in Psychology, 64, 102040
Andrighetto G., Angelovski A., Di Cagno D., Marazzi F., Szekely A. (2025)mTrust and trustworthiness in the villain’s dilemma: collaborative dishonesty with conflicting incentives? Experimental Economics
Andrighetto G., Tummolini, L. (2025) Norme sociali e spiegazione del comportamento collettivo di umani e macchine. In Marinucci, L. (a cura di) Spiegabilità e Intelligenza Artificiale. In Etica della ricerca, bioetica, biodiritto e biopolitica IV
Andrighetto, G., Szekely, A., Guido, A. Gelfand, M. […] Eriksson, K. (2024) Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries. Nat Communications 15.
Meiske, B., Álvarez-Benjumea, A., Andrighetto, G., Polizzi, E.(2024) Nudging punishment against sharing of fake news, European Economic Review
Andrighetto, G., Vriens, E. (2022). A research agenda for the study of social norm change. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 20200411.
Szekely, A., Lipari, F., Antonioni, A. Paolucci, M., Sanchez, A., Tummolini, L. Andrighetto, G. (2021). Evidence from a long-term experiment that collective risks change social norms and promote cooperation. Nature Communications 12, p.5452.
Eriksson, K., Strimling, P., Gelfand, M., Wu, J., Abernathy, J., Akotia, C., Aldashev, A., Andersson, P., Andrighetto, G. et al. (2021). Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies. Nature Communications, 12, p.1481.
Three frequently cited works:
Szekely, A., Lipari, F., Antonioni, A. Paolucci, M., Sanchez, A., Tummolini, L. Andrighetto, G. (2021). Evidence from a long-term experiment that collective risks change social norms and promote cooperation. Nature Communications 12, p.5452.
Andrighetto, G., Vriens, E. (2022). A research agenda for the study of social norm change. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 20200411.
Conte R, Andrighetto G, Campennì M (Eds.) (2014) Minding Norms. Mechanisms and dynamics of social order in agent societies. Oxford University Press.
