social conventions
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The film is the latest in a naturally evolving project for Krieps of playing women throughout history who reject the social conventions of their times.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 9, 2023
We assessed how sensitive children were to social conventions about how they should behave.
From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2023
"Even traditional events should be changed to suit modern ethics and social conventions," she says.
From BBC • Jun. 30, 2023
But social conventions around relationships have resisted change, according to Sonalde Desai, a social demographer at the University of Maryland who worked on the 2014 survey.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022
The conventional wisdom at the time held that expressions were culturally determined—that is, we simply used our faces according to a set of learned social conventions.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
