Competing or aiming to be average?: Normification as a means of engaging digital volunteers [PDF]
Engagement, motivation and active contribution by digital volunteers are key requirements for crowdsourcing and citizen science projects. Many systems use competitive elements, for example point scoring and leaderboards, to achieve these ends.
Coyle, David +2 more
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Civilly Disobeying What? On Directness and Relevance in Civil Disobedience
Abstract Recent acts of civil disobedience in protest against politicians' inaction about climate change have often targeted works of art to provoke public opinion on the issue. Such initiatives have attracted criticism from those who object to this form of political dissent.
Federico Zuolo
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Reconciling multiple sources of influence: Longitudinal associations among perceived parent, closest friend, and popular peer injunctive norms and adolescent substance use. [PDF]
Field NH, Prinstein MJ.
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Beliefs about alcohol and the college experience as moderators of the effects of perceived drinking norms on student alcohol use [PDF]
Many students view the abuse of alcohol as integral to the student role. Thus, they feel entitled to drink heavily without sanction. OLS regression was used to assess the extent to which these beliefs about alcohol and the college experience moderate the
Crawford, Lizabeth A. +1 more
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Social norms and culture: Theorizing and testing the effects of injunctive norms appeals
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
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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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 +3 more
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Predicting consumption of the USDA protein sub-recommendations among adults: a reasoned action approach [PDF]
Background: There is reportedly an under-consumption of protein foods from sub-recommendations within the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (meat, poultry, and eggs, seafood, and nuts, seeds and soy-products).
Paul Branscum, Karly Geller
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Flow in New Zealand high-performance athletes and their intentions to use regulated breathing : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Psychology at Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand [PDF]
Flow, or being “in the zone” (Jackson & Csikszentmihalyi, 1999, p. 12), is associated with athletes’ best-perceived performance (Jackson, Thomas, Marsh, & Smethurst, 2001).
Barrett, Jay Andrew
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Belief in a Norm‐Consistent Climate Policy Conspiracy Theory and Non‐Normative Collective Action
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 +3 more
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