Normative social influence
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What factors influence the mobile health service adoption? A meta-analysis and the moderating role of age Open
As an emerging field in the healthcare industry, mobile health service has been paid more and more attention in recent years. To explore the key determinants of individual attitude and behavioral intention, this study, based on 35 related …
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A dynamic model of engagement in normative and non-normative collective action: Psychological antecedents, consequences, and barriers Open
Some of the research reported in this review was prepared while Nicole Tausch was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Cardiff University (PDF/2007/520). Parts of this research were supported by a grant from the Economic and Social Res…
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Social Influence and Group Identity Open
This chapter reviews research on the group identity explanation of social influence, grounded in self-categorization theory, and contrasts it with other group-based explanations, including normative influence, interdependence, and social n…
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Social Norms and Pro‐Environmental Behaviour Open
This chapter focuses on social norms and people’s tendency to conform to pro-environmental behaviour. It explains what social norms are, how they influence (environmental) behaviour, and when. Social norms are rules and standards that are …
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Children conform, adults resist: A robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity Open
Children increasingly yielded to social pressure exerted by a group of robots; however, adults resisted being influenced by our robots.
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Normative Beliefs, Attitudes, and Social Norms: People Reduce Waste as an Index of Social Relationships When Spending Leisure Time Open
This study has adopted and refined Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior, theory of reasoned action, and the value–belief–norm theory by Stern et al. to investigate the effects of normative beliefs, attitudes, and social norms on pro-environm…
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Looking out for myself: Exploring the relationship between conspiracy mentality, perceived personal risk, and COVID‐19 prevention measures Open
Objectives This research examined how conspiracy mentality may affect compliance with preventive health measures necessary to fight the COVID‐19 pandemic, and the underlying motivations to comply. Design and Method We conducted two cross‐s…
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Evidence for embracing normative modeling Open
In this work, we expand the normative model repository introduced in Rutherford et al., 2022a to include normative models charting lifespan trajectories of structural surface area and brain functional connectivity, measured using two uniqu…
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Normative Influences on Adolescents’ Self-Reported Pro-Environmental Behaviors: The Role of Parents and Friends Open
Pro-environmental behavioral patterns are influenced by relevant others’ actions and expectations. Studies about the intergenerational transmission of environmentalism have demonstrated that parents play a major role in their children’s pr…
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From Normative Influence to Social Pressure: How Relevant Others Affect Whether Bystanders Join in Cyberbullying Open
As cyberbullying is a phenomenon that is inherently social, the normative social influence of significant others can play an important role in the behaviour of adolescents involved in cyberbullying incidents. Using data from 525 adolescent…
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Adoption of Energy-Efficient Home Appliances: Extending the Theory of Planned Behavior Open
This research applies an extended theory of planned behavior (TPB) to empirically investigate consumers’ intentions in Pakistan to purchase energy-efficient appliances (EEAs). Most developing countries face energy crises. As a result, many…
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How social norms are often a barrier to addressing climate change but can be part of the solution Open
We argue that the behavioral challenges posed by climate change are fundamentally problems of social influence. Behaviors that perpetuate climate change are often opaque in their consequences; thus, we look to others to infer how to act. Y…
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Predicting Behavioral Intentions to Prevent or Mitigate COVID-19: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis of Attitudes, Norms, and Perceived Behavioral Control Effects Open
We examined the effectiveness of attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control (PBC) of the theory of planned behavior on COVID-19 relevant behavioral intentions and behaviors. We conducted a meta-analysis of 335 effect siz…
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Beliefs about the Use of Instagram: An Exploratory Study Open
Given the rapid technological advancement, social media and communication devices
\ncontinue to grow exponentially. Hence, social networking has become a major
\ncommunication method in contemporary society. As a mobile application, Instag…
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The impact of brand love on brand loyalty: the moderating role of self-esteem, and social influences Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, it aims to clarify the moderating role of self-esteem (SE) and susceptibility to normative influence (SNI) in the relationship between brand love and brand loyalty. Second, the study p…
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When does a social norm catch the worm? Disentangling social normative influences on sustainable consumption behaviour Open
Sustainable consumption obtains ever‐increasing importance due to pressing social, environmental and economic issues. Extensive research has proposed the use of social norm communication as an effective means to encourage various kinds of …
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Normative Legal Research in Indonesia: Its Originis and Approaches Open
The legal research method is one of the academic fields that continues to generate debate among law students and law colleges in Indonesia. This debate is important because the research method is a means for a legal scholar to obtain the t…
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Determining consumer purchase intentions toward counterfeit luxury goods in Malaysia Open
This study adapted the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) to examine how social and personality factors influence Malaysian consumer attitudes toward counterfeit luxury goods and how consumer attitudes mediate these two sets of variables on c…
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Social norms as communicative phenomena: A communication perspective on the theory of normative social behavior Open
Much of human behavior is influenced by social norms. Although communication represents one important mechanism through which norms are formed and disseminated, the role of communication has not yet received sufficient attention in social …
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Conformity of Eating Disorders through Content Moderation Open
For individuals with mental illness, social media platforms are considered spaces for sharing and connection. However, not all expressions of mental illness are treated equally on these platforms. Different aggregates of human and technica…
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What companies do not disclose about their environmental policy and what institutional pressures may do to respect Open
The information contained in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports is a controversial issue, and it has generated an important debate among academics regarding company disclosure strategies. Environmental matters are especially rel…
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The Influence of Norm Perception on Pro-Environmental Behavior: A Comparison between the Moderating Roles of Traditional Media and Social Media Open
The activation of norm perception can promote pro-environmental behavior. How does media, as important variables in activating norm perception, affect pro-environmental behavior? Through an online survey of 550 randomly selected Chinese ci…
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Where Do Norms Come From? Peer Communication as a Factor in Normative Social Influences on Risk Behavior Open
This study explores the role of peer communication in normative social influences on risk behavior. We use the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB) as a guiding framework for developing a communication perspective on normative social…
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The Effects of Social Norms Among Peer Groups on Risk Behavior: A Multilevel Approach to Differentiate Perceived and Collective Norms Open
Social norms have been found to be an important factor in individuals’ health and risk behaviors. Past research has typically addressed which social norms individuals perceive in their social environments (e.g., in their peer group). The p…
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Dual Character Concepts in Social Cognition: Commitments and the Normative Dimension of Conceptual Representation Open
The concepts expressed by social role terms such as artist and scientist are unique in that they seem to allow two independent criteria for categorization, one of which is inherently normative (Knobe, Prasada, & Newman, 2013). This study p…
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Social values, self- and collective efficacy explaining behaviours in coping with Covid-19: Self-interested consumption and physical distancing in the first 10 days of confinement in Spain Open
The appearance of a new coronavirus (Covid-19) and its rapid expansion throughout the world has forced all countries to establish regulations based on social confinement. In the early days of a pandemic, the adherence to regulations is cru…
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The effect of interpersonal, problem solving and technical training skills on performance of Ethiopia textile industry: Continuance, normative and affective commitment as mediators Open
This cross-sectional study finds the relationship between interpersonal, problem-solving, and technical training skills and the performance of Ethiopia's textile and clothing industries when mediated by their employee's commitment and cont…
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Social media activation of pro-environmental personal norms: an exploration of informational, normative and emotional linkages to personal norm activation Open
The role that information plays is critical in changing behavior, thus it is surprising that so little research has examined informational strategies in activating pro-environmental personal norms. The aim of this study was to investigate …
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Social Norms: Do We Love Norms Too Much? Open
Social norms are often cited as the cause of many social phenomena, especially as an explanation for prosocial family and relationship behaviors. And yet maybe we love the idea of social norms too much, as suggested by our failure to subje…
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Investigating Rural Domestic Waste Sorting Intentions Based on an Integrative Framework of Planned Behavior Theory and Normative Activation Models: Evidence from Guanzhong Basin, China Open
The sorting of domestic waste is the most effective way to alleviate the problem of mass garbage accumulation around the villages of rural China. Farmers are the creators of rural domestic waste as well as the direct beneficiaries of effec…