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Conformity to descriptive norms

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022
Descriptive norms, which measure the prevalence of prosocial behavior (prosocial “contribution”, in our context), powerfully influence individual prosocial choice. We investigate the relative importance of three channels through which this may occur: (1) Individuals directly prefer to conform to common behavior, (2) individuals reciprocally contribute ...
Vera L. te Velde, Winnifred Louis
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Congruent or conflicted? The impact of injunctive and descriptive norms on environmental intentions

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Psychology, 2012
Two experiments examine the interplay of injunctive and descriptive norms on intentions to engage in pro-environmental behavior. In Experiment 1, Australian participants were exposed to supportive or unsupportive group descriptive and injunctive norms ...
Joanne R Smith   +2 more
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Alcohol evaluations and acceptability: Examining descriptive and injunctive norms among heavy drinkers

open access: yesAddictive Behaviors, 2015
Objectives: This study assessed descriptive and injunctive norms, evaluations of alcohol consequences, and acceptability of drinking. Methods: Participants were 248 heavy-drinking undergraduates (81.05% female; Mage = 23.45).
Dawn W Foster   +2 more
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The Normative and the Descriptive

2021
Abstract This chapter introduces some of the basic themes of Causation with a Human Face. Accounts of causal reasoning can either be normative (concerned with how we ought to reason) or descriptive (concerned with how we in fact reason).
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Norms and Descriptions

Decision Analysis, 2008
This article addresses the problem of identifying conditions according to which it is possible to distinguish between a descriptive theory and a normative theory. What makes a descriptive theory descriptive and a normative theory normative? The focus is on subjective expected utility theories where it seems open to debate whether the appropriate use is
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Is Dunning's Eclectic Framework Descriptive Or Normative? [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of International Business Studies, 1999
Can Dunning’s OLI (Ownership, Location, Internalization) framework be used to predict the best performing international entry modes or merely the most commonly selected modes? Using data from German and Dutch firms investing in Central and Eastern Europe, we investigate the relationship between Dunning’s OLI variables, entry mode selection and ...
Lance Eliot Brouthers   +2 more
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Unpacking Normativity. Conceptual, Normative, and Descriptive Issues

Jurisprudence, 2021
The anthology Unpacking Normativity, edited by Kenneth Einar Himma, Miodrag Jovanovic, and Bojan Spaic, follows the international conference ‘Legal Normativity and Language’ which took place at the...
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Normative and Descriptive Ideas

1988
Abstract : Choice reflects the interplay among the facts of human cognition and especially human limitations, out intuitions concerning the principles to be found in simple cases, and pragmatic considerations of the sort last mentioned. Probability gives us a handle on these things, but of course probability is one of them itself.
null Henry E., Jr Kyburg
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Separating Subjective Norms, University Descriptive and Injunctive Norms, and U.S. Descriptive and Injunctive Norms for Drinking Behavior Intentions

Health Communication, 2009
The theory of planned behavior and the social norms approach both stress the important influence that normative perceptions have on behavioral intentions and behavior. These 2 approaches were used to examine the behavioral intention to limit drinking to 0 to 4 drinks.
Hee Sun, Park   +3 more
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Social Epistemology, Descriptive and Normative

2019
Abstract Social epistemology ought to incorporate both a descriptive element (understanding our actual knowledge practices) and a normative element (assessing and evaluating those practices). While the two dominant traditions of social epistemology research in the last three decades tend to privilege one of these elements over the other,
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