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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Social Conformity"”.
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Response latencies in a social conformity paradigm: effects of a referent's competence
On each of 300 trials of a social conformity paradigm, subjects predicted which of two stimuli υ or Π) would appear on a stimulus screen following consideration of a reference group's prediction. The stimulus (either an υ or Π) then appeared and subjects identified the stimulus as quickly as …
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Essays on social influence
This dissertation explores various aspects of social influence processes in political behavior research. Specifically, three separate essays explore the ways in which communication, social conformity, cultural transmission, and other interpersonal influence processes operate to generate similar …
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Living Here with Lessons From There: Cosmopolitan Conversations After an International Service-Learning Trip
… speaks to participants’ struggles in resisting social conformity, conflicts with opinions of friends and family, consequences of challenging the status quo, ambivalent and contradictory commitments, and cosmopolitan identity formation attaching them to multiple global locations beyond the local. …
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Revising identification: fairy tales that transform tradition from within
… young audiences) with certain roles, producing social conformity, these radical revisions resist social and sexual prescription and in so doing embrace and empower a range of gender and sexual identities.
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Selected Characteristics of Children Referred for Psychiatric Evaluation
… non-referred and referred groups were (+) poor social conformity, (-) excessive resistance, (+) poor attention, and (-) poor ego strength. Those variables within the Pupils'-Ratings Sample contributing the most to the separation of the non-referred and referred groups were (+) self-concept, (+) …
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Emotional intelligence, religiosity, and authoritarianism in Canadian Bible college students
… of the instruments employed. These included the Social Conformity-Autonomy Scale , the Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test , and the IEQ Scales of Religiosity . The research was cross-sectional and assessed students as freshmen and as seniors. Correlational analysis was applied. Findings …
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Individual Differences in Children's Eyewitness Memory Skills
… attention, impulse control, reality contact, and social conformity using a standardized behavior rating scale. All of these variables were investigated to determine their impact on the various measures of eyewitness memory skills.</p> <p>Overall the older children performed significantly better …
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Using ecological momentary assessment to identify risk factors for simultaneous alcohol and cannabis use
… daily life. Results from aim 2 demonstrated that social, conformity, and expansion motives were endorsed more strongly during simultaneous- compared to single-substance use moments. Results from aim 3 include that simultaneously using cannabis during alcohol-use moments attenuated the positive …
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On Becoming Myself: a Longitudinal, Multimodal Autoethnography on the Racial Identity Experience of a Multicultural Black American Woman (with Mixed-Race Ancestry) Living Through the Myth of a Colorblind “Post-Racial” Era by E. Natasha L. Smith
… from early experiences shaped by colorblind socialization and social conformity to a nuanced self-understanding of identity and belonging across social and cultural divides. The dissertation follows William Cross’s Nigrescence model as a framework, revealing how identity is continuously …
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The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Fin de Siècle Jamesian Narratives
… the connections between stringent Victorian social mores and contemporaneously shifting perceptions of life in England toward the end of the 19th century. In the decades that followed, correlations between the Jamesian narrative and psychoanalytical theory became more prominent within mid— …