Bidirectional associations between descriptive and injunctive norms [PDF]
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2015 Modern research on social norms makes an important distinction between descriptive norms (how people commonly behave) and injunctive norms (what one is morally obligated to do).
Kimmo Eriksson, Pontus Strimling
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Injunctive Norms and Alcohol Consumption: A Revised Conceptualization [PDF]
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 2016 Injunctive norms have been found to be important predictors of behaviors in many disciplines with the exception of alcohol research. This exception is likely due to a misconceptualization of injunctive norms for alcohol consumption. To address this, we outline and test a new conceptualization of injunctive norms and personal approval for alcohol ...
Heather Krieger +2 more
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Dictator Game Giving: The Importance of Descriptive versus Injunctive Norms. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Human behaviour is influenced by social norms but norms can entail two types of information. Descriptive norms refer to what others do in this context, while injunctive norms refer to what ought to be done to ensure social approval.
Nichola J Raihani, Katherine McAuliffe
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The dynamics of injunctive social norms [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 Injunctive social norms are behaviours that one is expected to follow and expects others to follow in a given social situation; they are maintained by the threat of disapproval or punishment and by the process of internalization.
Sergey Gavrilets
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Descriptive and Injunctive Norms Related to E-Cigarettes. [PDF]
Mil Med, 2020 AbstractIntroductionE-cigarette use has rapidly increased in prevalence in the United States, and rates of use are even higher among military personnel compared to the general population. Descriptive and injunctive norms have previously been shown to impact tobacco use.
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Perceived injunctive norms and cannabis-related problems: The interactive influence of parental injunctive norms and race. [PDF]
J Ethn Subst Abuse, 2019 Cannabis use among college students is associated with negative consequences, including those that can negatively affect academic functioning. Perceived descriptive and injunctive norms are among the strongest predictors of college cannabis use and related problems, and perceived norms differentially relate to cannabis outcomes depending on the ...
Ecker AH +3 more
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Descriptive norms for me, injunctive norms for you: Using norms to explain the risk gap [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2019 People are more likely to rely on descriptive norms (i.e., what their peers are doing) when deciding whether to take a risk themselves than when deciding whether to recommend others to take a risk.
Xi Zou, Krishna Savani
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The malleability of injunctive norms among college students [PDF]
Addictive Behaviors, 2010 Alcohol use among college students has been associated with injunctive norms, which refer to the perceived acceptability of excessive drinking, and descriptive norms, which refer to perceptions of actual drinking. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a brief injunctive norms manipulation on both injunctive and descriptive norms about ...
Mark A Prince, Kate B Carey
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Condom use at last sex by young men in Ethiopia: the effect of descriptive and injunctive norms [PDF]
Reproductive Health, 2018 Background Condoms are an important prevention method in the transmission of HIV and sexually transmitted infections as well as unintended pregnancy.
Aparna Jain +3 more
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How gender- and violence-related norms affect self-esteem among adolescent refugee girls living in Ethiopia [PDF]
Cambridge Prisms: Global Mental Health, 2018 Background. Evidence suggests adolescent self-esteem is influenced by beliefs of how individuals in their reference group perceive them.
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