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Showing 1 to 20 of 496 for “"Social 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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Speech, Sex, and Social Norms
… contains 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 …
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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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SOCIAL NORMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE: INVESTIGATING CLIMATE INACTION
… I conceptualize climate change as a social, rather than a physical, problem and investigate possible reasons for climate inaction in three different contexts: international climate policy, academic research in sustainability science, and climate ethics. In Chapter 1, I argue that the …
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Four essays on risk, altruism, and social norms
… been extensively studied by psychology and the social sciences. Recently, these concepts have become increasingly important in economics as well. The field of game theory has formalized strategic behavior, and theoretical models of social preferences have been developed (Cooper & Kagel, 2017; …
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How can brands try to influence social norms?
This thesis explores how brands can influence social norms. Through detailed case studies of the American Tobacco Company, Nike, Patagonia, Yves Saint Laurent, and Viagra, it examines the various tactics employed by these brands to challenge and reshape societal perceptions and behaviors related to …
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Modeling social norms in real-world agent-based simulations
Studying and simulating social systems including human groups and societies can be a complex problem. In order to build a model that simulates humans' actions, it is necessary to consider the major factors that affect human behavior. Norms are one of these factors: social norms are the customary …
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Utilizing the Social Norms Theory for Mitigating Teen Driver Distraction
… crash risks. Parents and peers are important social referents for teens, that significantly influence their driving behaviours, including distracted driving. There has been a growing interest in using interventions based on the Social Norms Theory to change negative behaviours. According to …
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Social norms: actual versus perceived alcohol consumption of college freshmen
… a relationship between actual alcohol drinking norms and perceived alcohol drinking norms. The Campus Survey of Alcohol and Other Drug Norms were administered and analyzed using basic tables. Results demonstrated that freshmen resident students consume alcohol at a greater frequency than the …
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Adolescent smoking and social norms: an appraisal of theory and application of social norms to understand risk factors for smoking and sensitivity to normative influence
… behaviours that are carried into adulthood. The social reorientation that occurs during adolescence marks an important stage in development when normative influences become more salient, and social pressures to conform to the behaviours of peers increase in their magnitude and regularity. One …
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The influence of social norms and tax system on tax compliance
… the basis for the researcher to investigate how social norms and tax system influence the level of tax compliance among small and medium taxpayers in Tanzania Specifically in Tanga city using descriptive and correlation analysis. Data was collected from representative sample of 108 small and …
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Social norms, markets and land use in a developing country context
… development of land markets in the presence of social norms, and smallholder land use amid price uncertainty. The analysis presented in this dissertation focuses on two countries: Malawi and Ghana. In chapter two, I analyze constraints to the adoption of soil fertility management (SFM) practices …
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Performative Parenting: Social Norms and Fathers' Use of Parental Leave Entitlements
… equality and at the root of gendered caring norms and unequal divisions of labour throughout the life course. Using comparative mixed methods and a framework that conceptualises parenting as gendered and performative (Butler, 1999), this research contributes knowledge of the influence on …
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Understanding the Role of Social Norms in Natural Resource Co-Management
This dissertation investigated how social norms have been conceptualized, integrated and applied to understand cooperation in natural resources co-management. While interest in social norms is growing across disciplines, they remain relatively underexplored within conservation social psychology, …
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The Price Of Deviance: Social Norms And Access To Job Search Assistance
Assistance in job search is a valuable social resource that can markedly benefit its recipients. However, recent studies have shown that people who have information about jobs frequently withhold assistance from job seekers. In other words, knowledge of job information, the ability to help, and …
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The Influence of Social Norms on Athletes' Alcohol-Related Decision Making for Others
… with a focus on the effect of injunctive norms on decision making. Based on social values theory, it was expected that decisions made for others would align more closely with the injunctive norms in comparison to self-decisions. Online surveys were administered to 285 college …
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The tired and the blind. The effect of cognitive load on social norms
… propensión al seguimiento de reglas y de normas sociales. Encontramos que los sujetos en la condición de alta carga cognitiva son menos propensos a romper completamente la regla y se involucran en comportamientos menos extremos. Encontramos una composición diferente de los tipos de creencias …
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