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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"social influences"”.
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Social influences on children's learning
… to behave, and as parents, provide the larger social context in which children grow up. This thesis explores how adults impact children's learning across two time scales. Chapters 2 and 3 ask how a brief exposure to an adult model impacts children's moment-to-moment approach towards learning, …
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Social Influences on Children's Option Valuations
… multiple sources. Do children also incorporate social information - specifically, information pertaining to others' preferences - into their object valuations? Valuation is an important component of economic exchange, and is key to assessing how resources are fairly distributed or favors …
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Essays on Social Influences in Decision Making
This dissertation reports a series of studies on social influences in decision making with wide ranging marketing implications in areas such as gamification initiatives, participative pricing mechanisms, and charity fundraising strategies. The body of this work comprises of three indepth, …
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Exploring Social Influences on Executive Function in Preschool Children
… empirical research examining the influence of social interaction on children's executive functioning is still scarce. The present study aims to fill this gap by addressing how aspects of current and preceding social interactions affect preschool children's executive function performance. In the …
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Body Dissatisfaction, Verbal Commentary, Social Influences and Cigarette Smoking
… and the relationship between sociocultural influences (perceived family, peer, media, and significant other pressures) and smoking, while controlling for body mass index. Participants included 397 female undergraduates (Mean age = 20.32) recruited from universities and online communities, …
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Social Influences on the Female in the Novels of Thomas Hardy.
… harsh or condemning circumstances due to the social expectations placed upon them. These unpleasant events earn readers’ sympathy and work to subvert the traditional limiting views of women.</p>
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The impact of social influences on a woman's sense of self
… arguably contains contradictory and confusing social and political discourses regarding the role of women and the construction of motherhood. This study explores the lived experience of women who have decided to be full time stayat- home mothers and have experienced identity challenges as a …
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Motherhood, social influences and ‘home’: Women’s desistance in Aotearoa New Zealand
… as obtaining employment, housing, or access to social support) and internal factors (such as being motivated to change, or having a sense of agency). By integrating several strands of desistance theory, the current research examines women’s desistance in New Zealand, with a particular focus on …
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Academic, Athletic, and Social Influences of a Winter Tutorial on Elite Athletes
… in the study were: grades, race results, and social adjustment. The results showed that all students maintained or improved their grades. Race Results did not improve for all of the student athletes, but 4 of the 9 racers achieved standings in the top 15 in their age group in all races. The …
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Social influences on the development of relational thinking during small-group discussions
… mediate or moderate the instantaneous social and cognitive events of discussions. The social influences were investigated in a peer-led small-group discussion forum called Collaborative Reasoning (CR). A total of 176 CR discussions from 18 discussion groups in 6 fourth-grade classrooms …
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An Investigation Into the Relationships Among Behavioral Intentions, Attitudes, Social Influences, and Brand Purchase Behavior
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:08:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317125.pdf: 5004795 bytes, checksum: 3660c80397929d80af57a275d461e5b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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The Copycat Effect: Do social influences allow peer team members' dysfunctional audit behaviors to spread throughout the audit team?
… audit behaviors (DAB) within the profession. Social influence theory, applied in an auditing context, posits that staff auditors are influenced not only by the preferences of their superiors (i.e., compliance pressure) but also by their peers' DAB (i.e., conformity pressure). Given the …
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Understanding the experiences of Black boys in suburban schools: An examination of social influences on identity, achievement and school relationships
… how they identify with schools, as well as the social factors that contribute to their social and academic identities. In this qualitative research, focus groups were used to engage with Black boys and suburban, female educators to understand how their experience within school and in their …
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Mind the gap: an evaluation of the organisational, practical and social influences on the implementation of cycling-specific policies in Aberdeen.
… evaluates the organisational, practical and social influences on the implementation of cycling-specific policies in Aberdeen, Scotland. Although qualitative studies in this field are growing in number, a prior significant body of work has relied on quantitative data and therefore has not been …
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Environmental and social influences of foraging behaviour and maternal investment with a note on the mating frequency of the eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica
This thesis studies how weather and sociality influence the foraging effort input costs of brood production, and that multiple mating contributes to low-group relatedness and non-kin sociality in the Eastern carpenter bee, Xylocopa virginica. In Chapter 2, using a natural experiment which included …
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