Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness [PDF]
We demonstrate that individual behaviours directed at the attainment of distinctiveness can in fact produce complete social conformity. We thus offer an unexpected generative mechanism for this central social phenomenon.
Paul E. Smaldino, Joshua M. Epstein
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Predicting Individual Preferences in Mindfulness Techniques Using Personality Traits [PDF]
The growing popularity of mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) has prompted exciting scientific research investigating their beneficial effects on well-being and health.
Rongxiang Tang, Todd S. Braver
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Group choices seemingly at odds with individual preferences [PDF]
Numerous studies have focused on the influence of the social environment and the interactions between individuals on the collective decision-making of groups.
Michel-Olivier Laurent Salazar +5 more
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Individual preferences for task coordination strategies in multitasking: exploring the link between preferred modes of processing and strategies of response organization. [PDF]
Recent investigation of individual differences in multitasking revealed evidence for individual preferences for modes of task processing (serial vs.
Brüning J, Reissland J, Manzey D.
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Social modulation of individual preferences in cockroaches [PDF]
Summary: In social species, decision-making is both influenced by, and in turn influences, the social context. This reciprocal feedback introduces coupling across scales, from the neural basis of sensing, to individual and collective decision-making ...
Yannick Günzel +5 more
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Individual Differences in Aesthetic Preferences for Multi-Sensorial Stimulation [PDF]
The aim of the current project was to investigate aesthetics in multi-sensorial stimulation and to explore individual differences in the process. We measured the aesthetics of interactive objects (IOs) which are three-dimensional objects with electronic ...
Jie Gao, Alessandro Soranzo
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Individual preferences for scented water bowls in dogs [PDF]
IntroductionWhile food preferences have been extensively studied, much less is known about water preferences in dogs, especially regarding preferences for non-consumptive scented items attached to water bowls.
Rituparna Sonowal +2 more
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Weak individual preferences stabilize culture. [PDF]
Outcomes in the cultural arena are due to many factors but are there general rules that can suggest what makes some cultural traits successful and others not? Research in cultural evolution theory distinguishes factors related to social influence (such as copying from the majority, or from certain individuals) from factors related to individual ...
Acerbi A, de Courson B.
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Individual preferences for physical exercise as secondary prevention for non-specific low back pain: A discrete choice experiment. [PDF]
Background Exercise is effective in improving non-specific low back pain (LBP). Certain components of physical exercise, such as the type, intensity and frequency of exercise, are likely to influence participation among working adults with non-specific ...
Aboagye E +7 more
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Evolving communities with individual preferences [PDF]
The goal of this paper is to provide mathematically rigorous tools for modelling the evolution of a community of interacting individuals. We model the population by a measure space (Ω,F,ν) where ν determines the abundance of individual preferences.
T. Cass, Terry Lyons
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