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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Social pressures"”.
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Conservation on farms: Conflicting attitudes, social pressures and behaviour
… communities. The correlation of attitudes and social pressures with farmers' behaviour was also explored for three conservation-related activities about which there was conflict: hedge management, pesticide use and straw disposal. The first survey revealed a complex matrix of shared, …
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Testing the effects of social pressures through signaling, shaming, & communication to reduce pollution
… with university students to test impacts of social pressures and communication on individual decisions that generate water pollution. We test the impact of these treatments with and without stewardship signaling, through which individuals can give credible signals about their environmental …
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Using the Theory of Planned Behavior as a Predictor of Radiologic Technologists' Use of Patient Radiation Protection Best Practices: a Regional Study
… by availability or lack of equipment, policies, social pressure, attitudes, and a safety culture. Little research has been done in this area, specifically with applying a theoretical framework to a study. This study attempts to fill a gap to understand the attitudes, social pressures, behavioral …
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Spontaneity by command: Soviet state-society relations under Gorbachev and the emergence of the Russian environmental movement
… the system loosened the strictures on society, social pressures forced the pace and scope of future reforms.
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Cultural Liberalism as Mittelstandspolitik: The Deutschen Volkspartei in Baden 1926-1929
… Fragmented by special interest groups, social pressures and fears, and political indecisiveness, the German bourgeoisie was buffeted by and fell prey to a number of different attractions, a process which contributed to the instability of the political middle.
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An analysis of current organization development efforts in the United States Coast Guard.
… is faced with the problems of system-wide social change and the need to manage the integration of individual and organizational goals. A comparative/descriptive analysis of preliminary and institutionalized OD efforts by the various U.S. Armed Forces to respond to these social pressures is …
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SOCIAL AND REPUTATIONAL DRIVERS OF SUNK-COST SENSITIVITY IN INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE DECISION-MAKING
… argues that sunk-cost behavior is shaped more by social pressures than by cognitive bias. Across three preregistered, “waste-free” studies, I show that people persist to protect reputation and relationships—especially when others have invested or when commitment signals reliability. When social …
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Experiences of gender based violence (GBV) among women in Zambia of reproductive age (14-49) : do norms and beliefs perpetrate the vice?
… revealed a consistent relationship between social norms and violence against women. The primary strength of this study is that it examined the direct relation of norms and beliefs on the experience of GBV for women in their reproductive ages. The study used fully comparable and nationally …
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Experiences of gender based violence (GBV) among women in Zambia of reproductive age (14-49) : do norms and beliefs perpetrate the vice?
… revealed a consistent relationship between social norms and violence against women. The primary strength of this study is that it examined the direct relation of norms and beliefs on the experience of GBV for women in their reproductive ages. The study used fully comparable and nationally …
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Brazilian television in the 1980's : the making of "Brazilianized" culture
… result of human choice, cultural decisions and social pressures" (Fiske and Hartley 1978, p. 17), Brazilian television needs to be seen as an expression of the socio-political, cultural, and economic order of that country within the international economic and political context. Therefore, I will …
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Optimal Intertemporal Pricing Strategies for Firms Introducing New Products
… are explored: delayed purchase, awareness, social pressures and informational needs. The firm does better by pricing a straightforward new product at a lower introductory price when the product is quite visible to other potential adopters when an individual adopts. Differences in …
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Participation in a household energy audit and retrofit subsidy program
… economic incentives, information effects, social pressures and household characteristics. The analysis uses data from the City of Urbana-Ameren Illinois partnership program which provided free energy audits and subsidies for insulation retrofits between 2010 and 2012. A survey administered …
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Mathematics Attitudes and Mathematics Performance: Novel Approaches towards Noncognitive Educational Measurement, Applications to Large-scale Assessment Data, and Examinations of Multigroup Invariance
… performance) and negative relations between social pressures and the academic outcomes examined.</p> <p>Further, Study 2B explored differences in the mathematics attitude-mathematics achievement relation moderated by the intersectionality of student gender and race/ethnicity. Results …
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Living the newsmaker story
… violent crime and their families, controversial social cases (e.g. right to die legislation, abortion, AIDS, etc.), and innovative medical transplants, amongst other issues and events which come to involve elements of privacy, present peculiar problems for the ordinary people who are the stories' …
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Screening African Conflicts : the different faces of Africa's child soldiers - Afro-pessimistic / Afro-optimistic portrayals on screen
… levels of poverty, unemployment and also the social pressures on children to engage in armed conflicts. By bearing these factors in mind when delving into this complex subject matter, helped in ascertaining the ways in which certain modalities of thinking about Africa, as well as her child …
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From Strain to Success: A Phenomenological Study of the Personal and Academic Pressures on African American Male Community College Students
… in the context of personal and academic counter-pressures on achievement. Findings suggested key academic, cultural, and social pressures African American men experience had a substantial effect on their academic progress. Since educational access and achievement are linked to economic well-being …
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In A Foreign Land: Stories Of African Immigrants And Their Children In Jackson, MS
… maintain a distinct African identity amidst vast social pressures to assimilate into both American society and African-American culture. I pay particular attention to the intersections of gender and age. Although some might consider these practices gendered, such as developing community, carrying …
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Exploring Contexts of Ubiquitous Structures
… I have approached the same subject matter -- social structures -- through various techniques and media. I have chosen this subject matter after consistently observing and experiencing people base social decisions not on their own personal intuition, but on that which is dictated by any number …
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From Cyprus to Venice: Art, Exchange and Exile across the Renaissance Mediterranean
… where they were subject to a different set of social pressures, they opted for works in the traditional Byzantine style. At the heart of this study are three noble Cypriot lineages - the Podocataro, Costanzo, and Synglitico - that were well established in both Cyprus and the lagoon. Contrary to …
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