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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Personal Norms"”.
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Social Influence and Personal Norms in Networks with Strategic Complementarities
… games with social conflict, spillovers, and personal norms. Chapter 2 discusses the dynamics of efforts with players adapting their personal norms and provides the conditions for reaching consensus in a multi-layer network. Chapter 3 introduces unions in the network game with spillovers and …
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An empirical evaluation of m-health service users’ behaviours: A case of Bangladesh
… and confirmed the influence of social and personal norms on satisfaction and behavioural outcomes like- intention to use. Despite this, no research has been conducted to determine whether these normative components affect m-health users' service satisfaction and usage behaviours. As a …
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Understanding pro-environmental binning behaviour of National Park visitors: A cross-cultural study
… between awareness of consequences and personal norms was the strongest, and personal norms was the most influential determinant of pro-environmental binning behaviour. Further, the PLS-SEM results revealed a good fit of the model within each sample, with minimal variations in the …
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Consumer behaviour towards voluntary carbon credits
… These factors include attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, trust, novelty seeking, awareness of consequences, attribution of responsibility, and personal norms. The findings underscore the significance of these factors in shaping consumer purchase intentions. …
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Making public politics private: A narrative study of apartheid racial ideology and its effects on white teenage female sexual desire in post-apartheid South Africa
… historical public discourses come to function as personal norms, expressed as personal desire not political ideology. Literature has shown that these racial ideologies function both to fetishize the Other in interracial relationships and to maintain the hegemony of whiteness in interracial …
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Identification of social indicators and standards for acceptable conditions in the Cohutta Wilderness using a normative social judgment approach
… of the users sampled were willing to provide personal norms, but these norms were often unstable over time. Users tended to become more restrictive concerning those conditions they found acceptable. Measures of consensus suggested two different conclusions. Wilderness user subgroups tended to …
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The experience sampling method, Apple iPhones, and investigating the relationship between values, subjective well-being and pro-environmental behavior
… behavior, or the purchase, use, and disposal of personal and household products, is responsible for exacerbating climate change, bio-diversity loss and environmental degradation. Some believe that these rates of change, loss and degradation are unsustainable. As a result a great deal of effort …
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Adoption, Spatial Patterns, and Behavioral Mechanisms in California Turf Removal Rebate Programs
… mechanisms such as peer effects, social norms, personal norms, and household characteristics play in the household decision to participate in this program. The first paper uses a multilevel survival model framework to explore spatial patterns, drivers of participation, and the presence of …
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Pro-Environmental Behaviors in the Workplace: Is Concern for the Environment Enough?
… individual differences, including individuals' norms regarding the environment and sense of guilt repair for failing to act in an environmentally responsible manner, were examined. Moreover, two types of PEBs were distinguished: PEBs easily engaged in and PEBs that require a cost to self. A …
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Three Essays on Democracy, Inequality, and Redistribution in Developed Countries
… new measures of perceived actual inequality, personal norms of inequality, and perceived injustice. The findings demonstrate that subjective social position has a stronger impact on redistributive preferences than objective social position and that individuals’ inequality norms play a more …
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Understanding the influence of individual behaviour and social networks in sustainability transitions.
… perceived behavioural control, descriptive and personal norms. Additionally, segmentation of different sustainable behaviour groups (high, medium and low) let to the development of segment specific intervention strategies. The lab experiment, measuring actual sustainable food consumption …
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Conservation Behavior Outcomes and Drivers of Participation in a Conservation Research Program on Private Lands
… (i.e. demographics, actual behavioral control, personal norms, environmental attitude) were not predictive of perceptions of impact. Findings from this thesis can inform efforts to influence program participants' conservation behaviors. In particular, program managers may increase conservation …
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Zika Message Analysis
… intention included descriptive and injunctive norms, or the perceptions of others’ beliefs and behaviors toward a recommended health behavior. Conclusions from the current study aid in further understanding how to create influential and effective behavior-change health messages.</p>
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Conceptions of disability and desert in the South African welfare state: The case of disability grant assessment
… dispositions, work environment, professional and personal norms and values, and ideas about distributive justice. Framing is also an interactive process and was influenced by claimants, who brought their own agency to bear on the assessment. The concept of framing contributes to street-level …
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Social and ecological dimensions of non-native grass management in working landscapes
… to reduce non-native grasses. These personal norms, together with attitudes, positively influenced willingness to implement man-agement. The power of norms to explain decisions suggests that people could be engaged in man-agement by leveraging moral responsibility and influential …
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Exploring how digital communication influences consumer sustainable consumption and wellbeing
… of pro-environmental behaviour along with social norms. The participants were more encouraged when their friends, family and neighbours took part in pro-environmental behaviour as opposed to just relying on their own. The participants felt a sense of satisfaction and happiness when partaking in …