http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress provides the latest news from American Institute of Biological Sciences Researchers should study how people's social and personal norms are influenced by behavior and use their insights to help governments promote pro-environmental actions, a distinguished group of scholars writes in the March issue of BioScience. The authors maintain that effective policies induce not only short-term changes in behavior but also long-term changes in norms. More effective management of social norms will be necessary, they write, to persuade the public to accept the inconvenience and expense of many environmental policies. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-scientists-advance-behavioral-norms.html Health Wed, 13 Feb 2013 03:04:28 EST news279947058