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Smoking cessation during pregnancy: the influence of partners, family and friends on quitters and non-quitters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This research compared pregnant quitters’ and non-quitters’ accounts of how partners, family and friends influenced their smoking cessation attempts.
Aaronson   +80 more
core   +1 more source

Daily Associations Between Injunctive Drinking Norms and Alcohol Consumption

open access: yesJournal 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.   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Does legal protection of trade secrets reduce the cost of debt? Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the effect of the inevitable disclosure doctrine (IDD) on cost of debt. Our difference‐in‐differences analyses reveal that the IDD significantly reduces the loan spread for borrowers in adopting states. To elucidate the mechanisms of such finding, we find that the IDD's effect is weaker in industries with high management turnover ...
Haiyan Jiang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of social norms for online prosocial & antisocial behavior among adolescents in Singapore

open access: yesCyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace
Although features of social media such as visibility and quantifiability might intensify processes of peer influence, there still is little systematic research on these mechanisms in the online context, especially when it comes to prosocial behavior ...
Ruth Wendt, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen
doaj   +1 more source

‘Grabbing Our Land Deprives Us of Our Future’: Struggles Against State‐Led Land Dispossession, Demands for Justice and Citizenship in Dakar's Urban Outskirts

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do people at the outskirts of Dakar struggle against urban land grabs and state‐led dispossession for urban development? How do they express the injustices they face and their demands for justice? What are they claiming, and what success have they had?
Philippe Lavigne Delville
wiley   +1 more source

Examining anti-littering intentions in Ghana through the theory of normative social behavior and the influence of dynamic norms

open access: yesCurrent Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
Grounded in the Theory of Normative Social Behavior (TNSB), this study examined how perceptions of static and dynamic norms and multidimensional outcome expectations influence anti-littering intentions in Ghana, based on in-person surveys with 527 ...
Kwaku Sarpong Danso   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A novel approach to assess descriptive and injunctive norms for college student marijuana use. [PDF]

open access: yesAddict Behav, 2021
Montes KS   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

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