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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, Katherine A, Klein, Sandi, Smith, Dennis, Martell   +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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More descriptive norms, fewer diversions

Library Hi Tech, 2019
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between researchers’ social media (SM) behavior and their academic performance. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 362 researchers was recruited from the colleges of management of 52 Chinese universities.
Wenzhi Zheng, Yenchun Jim Wu, Yue Lv
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Verb frame preferences: Descriptive norms

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1984
This paper presents normative data about the frequency with which college students construct sentences with different syntactically defined frames for 127 English verbs. The norms are intended to be of use to experimenters in preparing materials to study sentence comprehension.
Cynthia Connine, Fernanda Ferreira, Charlie Jones, Charles Clifton, Lyn Frazier   +4 more
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Descriptive and Normative Ethics Conscientious Objection

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1996
Conscientious objection preserves the personal integrity and wholeness of a health care professional's character and personality. Professionals are obligated not only to codes of ethics and standards of care that guide their practices, but also to personal values.
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DESCRIPTIVE, PREDICTIVE AND NORMATIVE THEORY

Kyklos, 1972
SUMMARYThe higher degree of description is reached when a field becomes amenable to the use of the axiomatic method. In economics this state has been reached only recently in the establishment of a numerical utility. In general, it is difficult to know what to describe and how to measure; both require precise concepts.
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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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Normative notions in descriptive dialogues

Journal of Economic Methodology, 2005
Developments in the theory of individual decision‐making have been partly shaped by two criteria: a desire for models consistent with experimental evidence; and a pre‐commitment to models built on normatively appealing axioms. This paper explores the compatibility of these two selection criteria.
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Are normative properties descriptive properties?

Philosophical Studies, 2010
Some philosophers think that normative properties are identical to descriptive properties. In this paper, I argue that this entails that it is possible to say which descriptive properties normative properties are identical to. I argue that Frank Jackson’s argument to show that this is possible fails, and that the objections to this argument show that ...
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Conformity to descriptive norms

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022
Vera L. te Velde, Winnifred Louis
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