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Showing 1 to 20 of 3879 for “"Norms"”.
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Essays On Social Norms
I study equilibrium behavior in games for which players have some preference for appearing to be well-informed. In chapter one, I study the effect of such preferences in a dynamic game where players have preferences for appearing to be well-informed about the actions of past players. I find that …
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Essays on social norms
… essay addresses why people might conform to norms that they do not endorse. One explanation is pluralistic ignorance: when everyone appears to endorse a norm, even nonendorsers will conform so as to feign their commitment to the group's values, thereby exacerbating the misperception. But this …
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Gender Norms and Gendered Traits
… enforcement of and compliance with gender norms. Understanding how they work is therefore salient to the goal of gender liberation.According to the category-based view, which is common in analytic feminist philosophy, gender norms are assigned to individuals based on their assigned gender …
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Pluralistic ignorance of campus norms
1 PDF file (vii, 96 pages)
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Societal Norms: A Writing Portfolio
Legal and racial issues.
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Speech, Sex, and Social Norms
… five essays about speech, sex, and social norms. In each of the first four essays, I analyse a different communicative phenomenon: discriminatory pejoratives (Chapter 1), cat-calling (Chapter 2), shaming (Chapter 3), and flirting (Chapter 4). In Chapter 5 I reflect on how our models of …
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Essays on delegation and social norms
This thesis presents the results of my doctoral studies at Middlesex University London. It contains different papers related to Labour Markets and presents some results on production, delegation and dishonest behaviour. The first study compares how group size interacts with both constrained and …
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Priming, social norms, and eating behavior: An investigation of the impact of food advertisements and norms on consumption
… understand how food advertisements and social norms affect the eating behavior of children. Past studies have shown that children increase their consumption of food after seeing advertisements for unhealthy foods compared to children who see ads that are not promoting food. However, little is …
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Epistemic Norms, A Priority, and Self-Knowledge
… paying attention to the structure of epistemic norms. I argue that direct a priori beliefs are governed by a structurally different kind of epistemic norm to the one that governs perceptual beliefs. That, I argue, is where the fundamental epistemological difference between the two categories …
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Norms and transfers in motivic homotopy theory
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Power-Conferring Norms and Law's Normative Guidance
… complex interaction of reciprocal forces between norms and human activities. This thesis argues against the prevailing view that characterizes law’s normative significance as giving independent reasons for action and provides a more comprehensive account of the social facts underlying a legal …
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Mental health service norms in South Africa
… African population. Thirdly, a set of service norms was proposed for each of the nine service indicators, informed by data from the situation analysis. Fourthly, a practical user-friendly planning manual was developed, using the situation analysis, model and norms to provide guidelines for the …
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Occupational invocation : managing experts through occupational norms
… experts' breaches of shared occupational norms. Managers then reintegrate experts by providing them with an opportunity to display a correction of their actions such that they align with the community's expectations as well as the contracting organization's interests. By referencing common …
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SOCIAL NORMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTIGATING CLIMATE INACTION
Climate change is a well-understood problem with well-understood solutions. Why, then, has there been so little effective climate change mitigation action? In this dissertation, I conceptualize climate change as a social, rather than a physical, problem and investigate possible reasons for climate …
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Injunctive and descriptive norms effect on physical activity
1 PDF file (vii, 112 pages)
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Four essays on risk, altruism, and social norms
… situations (such as risky choices), and social norms. This dissertation aims to investigate these phenomena in depth, using experimental methods to explore different scenarios. The first study examines the various classifications of nudges in the literature by creating a unified framework that …
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