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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"social pressure"”.
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Emergent Rhythmic Structures as Cultural Phenomena Driven by Social Pressure in a Society of Artificial Agents
This thesis studies rhythm from an evolutionary computation perspective. Rhythm is the most fundamental dimension of music and can be used as a ground to describe the evolution of music. More specifically, the main goal of the thesis is to investigate how complex rhythmic structures evolve, subject …
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Social pressure to speak English and the effect of English language learning for ESL composition students in higher education
… member of any English community of practice. Pressures on these students to converge to English occur because of the faulty notions that make the basis of current language policies. This study looks at the implications of the pressure to converge within two sections of an ESL composition …
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Interactions between global and local performance incentives on decision-making and categorization
… a regulatory mismatch. In Study 2 I examine how social pressure is related to approach and avoidance-based performance incentives using two types of category-learning tasks. I test the hypothesis that increasing performance pressure will induce an avoidance-based prevention focus which then …
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corporate social responsibility disclosure:an examination of framework of determinants and consequences.
… study presented a framework to explain corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSD) in terms of determinants and consequences. The study is dealing with quantity and quality of CSD in both annual and stand alone reports. The framework is based on legitimacy theory as appropriate theoretical …
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Participation in 280 Characters or Less: Estimating Network Structure Effects of Social Media Platforms on Political Participation
… dissertation explores the relationship between social media use and political participation. The three empirical articles contribute to the development of collective action approaches that incorporate social elements, improving the predictive power of these theories. Additionally, the collective …
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Trump and the Spiral of Silence
… from the University of Houston felt strong social pressure to censor their political expressions while most of the sample from Texas A&M University did not. Students in the sample reported experiencing social pressure in two primary domains: classrooms and greater campus. This paper …
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Cognitive foundations of strategic behavior : from games to revolutions
… of forward-looking agents in the presence of social pressure. I show that social pressure is effective in generating public good provision: after an agent starts contributing to the public good, other agents decide to contribute as well because of fear of being punished, what generates …
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Drinking motives and influences among college students
… Specifically, the research was susceptibility to social pressure and social expectations play the central role and are a major influence in college students drinking behaviors. Twenty-eight undergraduate students from various universities completed the Psycho-social Drinking Inventory. This is a …
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MAINTENANCE OF NONSMOKING FOLLOWING SELF-INITIATED CESSATION
… of smokers in their combined home, work and social environments; (6) Overall, abstainers reported feeling significantly more in control of themselves during and after temptations or smoking episodes than did relapsers.</p><p>Most temptations occurred at home or at work and they were primarily …
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Job Satisfaction and Adaptation
… (1980). Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall) as the model of behavioral choice. Eight adaptive behaviors were studied, including attempts to obtain jobs in other organizations or job transfers, talking to supervisors, husbands, and …
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Assessment of an environmentally-friendly method of ornamental fishing associated with revenues of fishers in Tejakula sub-district, Buleleng region, Bali, Indonesia
… of ornamental fishers has declined, due to social pressure, a smaller overall fishing space because of No Take Zones (NTZ), and fewer orders for ornamental fish.Environmental education for local community members is critical to maintain adherence to the reformed method of fishing. Clear …
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Examination Of The Acquired Preparedness Model And Alcohol Use In Emerging Adults
… and quantity of drinking. Results suggest that social pressure self-efficacy was found to fully mediate the relation between the impulsivity variables (lack of premeditation and positive urgency) for both drinking frequency and quantity. Increased confidence, increased sexual interest, and …
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Women, anger, and cardiovascular reactivity to interpersonal conflict
… an attack on a significant other. Due to the social pressure placed on women to not express their anger, and because it may be considered socially appropriate to express anger in defense of a significant other, it was hypothesized that experiencing anger during harassment of the self would …
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Gender-Based Adoption of Agricultural, Health and Family Planning Technologies by Individuals Within Rural Households: The Malawi Case
… in demographic characteristics, but maximizes social learning mechanisms which provide opportunities to exchange information and ideas in a series of facilitated discussion groups and creating social pressure for appropriate adoption practices. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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Botanical Specimens: A Series of Relief and Intaglio Print Variations Indexing Plant Forms
… of the contributing factors are noise pollution, social pressure from greater competition, and weaker community ties.
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Buy or boycott?: an examination of mediated consumer animosity effects on purchase intentions
… Beijing Olympic torch relay crisis. Theories of social identity and realistic group conflicts served as a theoretical framework to model the impact of consumer animosity on purchase intentions. The results suggest that the stable and situational animosities led to slightly lower product quality …
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History, culture and alcohol: Drinking patterns in Poland and Australia
… alcohol in Poland was an important aspect of social situations. The most popular beverage was vodka(s). Social pressure to drink in the extreme was attributed to the tradition of hospitality. Cultural norms encouraged very heavy drinking among men and imposed heavy social sanctions on women …
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Observation-induced reactance in a prison
… in which an inmate model was shown to receive social pressure from his unit manager to enroll in group psychotherapy. This social pressure constituted a threat to the model's freedom to refuse therapy enrollment. It was predicted that observers of the freedom-threat tape would experience …
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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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