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Showing 1 to 20 of 363 for “"social influence"”.
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Implicit Social Influence
… impossible to control. Prior work has shown that social influence, whether it is intentional persuasion or incidental influence, usually leads the recipient of the influence to change his or her attitudes to be closer to the attitudes of the source of the influence. This work has focused on the …
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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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Understanding social influence on political tolerance
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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Risky Decision-Making Under Social Influence
Risky decision-making and social influence are associated with many health-risk behaviors. However, more work is necessary to understand risky decision-making and social influence. Additionally, to begin identifying ways to change individuals' engagement in health-risk behaviors, more work is …
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Exploring fast food consumption behaviours and social influence.
… and choice of fast food restaurant could influence energy balance and long-term health outcomes. Even though fast foods are occupying a larger part of the diet, limited previous research has explored how social influences (including modelling, social norms and social facilitation) may …
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Measuring and generating social influence using mobile telephony
… recent years, mobile telephony and manufactured social influence have received attention as tools for eliciting behavior change. This paper describes an experimental approach to studying the effect of these tools in combination. We demonstrate that mobile telephony can be used to generate social …
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Essays on learning, social influence and economic policy design
Dissertation im Cotutelle-Verfahren: Universität Bielefeld/Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Using Social Influence To Enhance Post-Experimental Inquiry Success
… present study implemented a PEI to assess the influence of an ethnic prime on stereotyped attitudes in order to assess PEI accuracy. A confederate (posting as another participant) additionally informed some participants as to the true purpose of the study, a violation of study integrity. The …
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The Impact of Social Influence Pressure on CFO Judgments
<p>Through an experiment, this study examines the influence of social influence pressure on the Chief Financial Officer’s (CFO’s) financial reporting decisions. Specifically, I evaluate the impact of inappropriate obedience and compliance pressure from the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on the CFO’s …
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Mind your mind: social influence on individual decision-making.
… based on information exchanged within a social system through suggestions, recommendations, comments, and advice. Herbert Simon called this human tendency to rely on socially obtained information (SOI) for decision-making as ‘docility’. There are occasions when humans tend to avoid using …
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Understanding social influence using network analysis and machine learning
… society works. In order to make computational social science a useful reality, we will need generative models of how social influence sprouts at the interpersonal level and how it leads to emergent social behavior. In this thesis, I take steps at understanding the predictors and conduits of …
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Social Influence and Personal Norms in Networks with Strategic Complementarities
… effort choice and dynamics in games on a fixed social network with strategic complementarities. The three chapters of the thesis discuss different aspects of the social influence present in networks and affecting effort choices of the players. Chapter 1 presents a model of social learning where …
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Now That's Promising: A Social Influence Model of Innovation Evaluation
… know decidedly less about how such processes are influenced by the formal and informal structures within which individuals in this setting operate. To address these limitations, I first draw from work on the psychology of idea evaluation to identify and develop a heuristic of evaluation relevant …
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Social Influence and Willingness to Pay for Online Video Games
… has been argued to affect consumer behavior is social influence. The purpose of this research is to investigate the effect of the three levels of social influence, micro-, meso-, and macro-, on both willingness-to-pay for online content and each other. This is accomplished by examining social …
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The Prediction of Dyadic Decisions From Models of Social Influence
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T18:21:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726738.pdf: 7432099 bytes, checksum: 050c016d5bde9cf50006985621ac1e8e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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The effect of verb aspect on cognitive dissonance and social influence
… as completed using the perfective verb aspect) influences attitudes toward the decision and tendencies to make similar decisions. In Experiment 1, participants who described their prior decision-making act using the perfective (vs. imperfective) aspect indicated greater decision satisfaction …
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Some Social Influence Variables Affecting the Internal Allocation of Capital Resources
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T13:33:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606714.pdf: 4051759 bytes, checksum: 36e2b51193b82a68e7bf367404a19393 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Degrees of Compliance With Requests for Action: The Social Influence Process
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-11T17:49:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511831.pdf: 14871226 bytes, checksum: df23e55685ec03c199f2e5a2e541afe0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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