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Social norms and culture: Theorizing and testing the effects of injunctive norms appeals

Communication Monographs
This study examines how high/low-context (HC/LC) communication and cultural tightness-looseness (CTL) influence responses to injunctive norm messaging. A 4 × 2 cross-cultural experiment in China and the U.S.A. tested four conditions: no-message control, message without norms, injunctive norms-only, and injunctive norms with explicit social sanctions ...
Rain Wuyu Liu, Maria Knight Lapinski
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Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
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Why Be Funny: The Influence of Social Norms on the Communicative Functions of Humor

Behavioral Sciences
Humor is a valued social activity and, as such, should be influenced by social norms. This investigation examined the relationships between the functions of humor and the theory of normative social behavior.
Nathan Miczo, John C. Meyer
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Entangling and Coalescing on Social Media: A Study of Issue Boundary Spanning in Movement of Movements

Information Systems Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how issues across boundaries influence contention dynamics in a movement of movements on social media. Participants utilize social media to support or oppose goals and actions related to their visions regarding societal changes. As the boundaries of movements are fluid on social media, we investigate the actors' identities,
Carol Lee, Pratyush Bharati, Emmanuelle Vaast   +2 more
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Does social withdrawal inhibit defending bullied peers and do perceived injunctive norms mitigate those effects? [PDF]

Dev Psychol, 2022
Crumly B, Thomas J, McWood LM, Troop-Gordon W.   +3 more
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Daily Associations Between Injunctive Drinking Norms and Alcohol Consumption

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
Perception of others' approval of alcohol use (i.e., injunctive drinking norms) is strongly predictive of alcohol use, particularly among young adults. Although between-person injunctive norms predict alcohol use, there is evidence of within-person fluctuations in the relationship between norms and drinking.
Warner, Olivia M., Porter, Anna M., Trull, Timothy J., McCarthy, Denis M.   +3 more
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Belief in a Norm‐Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non‐Normative Collective Action

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 5, Page 343-358, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Believing in conspiracy theories is connected to support for non‐normative collective action. One explanation might be that this is due to both being non‐normative. Alternatively, it might be the case that non‐normative action appears justified based on what conspiracy theories alleging harm to a personally relevant group due to powerholders ...
Lotte Pummerer, Lara Ditrich, Kevin Winter, Kai Sassenberg   +3 more
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Predicting pro-environmental behavior among generation Z in Indonesia: the role of family norms and exposure to social media information

Frontiers in Communication
Amidst the pressing concerns of sustainability, it is of utmost importance to prioritize the adoption of reusable bottles to combat plastic waste and encourage pro-environmental behavior (PEB). Moreover, social norms, particularly those within the family,
Jenny Ratna Suminar, Hanny Hafiar, Kholidil Amin, Ari Agung Prastowo   +3 more
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The impact of exposure to HPV related information and injunctive norms on young women's intentions to receive the HPV vaccine in China: A structural equation model based on KAP theory. [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2022
Wang Y, Chen Y, Bao S.
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Worker Heterogeneity and the Effect of Noncompetes on Firm Performance

Journal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using staggered state‐level changes in noncompete enforceability, we document that reduced enforcement increases profitability, valuation, productivity, and plant‐level growth in knowledge‐worker‐intensive firms relative to other firms. Critically, these gains are concentrated among the most productive knowledge‐worker firms, consistent with ...
Zhaozhao He, Modupe Babajide Wintoki
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