Descriptive norms caused increases in mask wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Scientific Reports, 2023 Human sociality is governed by two types of social norms: injunctive norms, which prescribe what people ought to do, and descriptive norms, which reflect what people actually do.
Samantha L. Heiman +7 more
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Health Behavior Research, 2017 The purpose of this study was to evaluate the benefit of transforming expectancy-based determinants of injunctive and descriptive norms with a value-laden construct across a case series of health behaviors.
Paul Branscum +3 more
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Items assessing intention, perceptions of descriptive norms, and injunctive norms.
, 2022 Items assessing intention, perceptions of descriptive norms, and injunctive norms.
Joyce Delnoij (14046783) +3 more
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The role of emotions and injunctive norms in breastfeeding: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Health Psychology Review, 2021 Breastfeeding has many known benefits, but rates vary globally. We propose two main reasons why psychological theory and interventions have not been successful to date in explaining breastfeeding behaviours. Specifically, prior research underestimates the importance of (1) specific emotions and (2) wider injunctive influences (i.e., societal and moral ...
Russell, Pascale Sophie +4 more
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Wellcome Open Research, 2017 Background: The contribution of structural inequalities and societal legitimisation to violence against women, which 30% of women in India survive each year, is widely accepted.
Nayreen Daruwalla +5 more
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Prejudice, Injunctive, and Descriptive Norms
, 2021 The expression of prejudice is highly dependable on the social norms to do so (Crandall, Eshleman, & O'Brien, 2002). This study investigates the effect of injunctive and descriptive norms on prejudice and the participants attitudes towards a broad ...
Pascal Gelfort +2 more
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Relationship between injunctive norms and intentions moderated by efficacy beliefs.
, 2022 The interaction between injunctive norms and efficacy in predicting intentions is plotted here. Injunctive norms are plotted on the x-axis; intentions is plotted on the y-axis.
Rajiv N. Rimal (9318725) +2 more
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Normative misperception and the impact of descriptive and injunctive norms on college student gambling. [PDF]
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2003 Two studies examined college student gambling as a function of descriptive and injunctive social norms. It was expected that individuals would overestimate the descriptive norm and that both descriptive and injunctive norms would uniquely predict gambling behavior and problem gambling.
Mary E, Larimer, Clayton, Neighbors
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Illicit substance use among university students from seven European countries: A comparison of personal and perceived peer use and attitudes towards illicit substance use [PDF]
, 2014 Objective: To compare European students' personal use and approval of illicit substance use with their perceptions of peer behaviours and attitudes, and investigate whether perceptions of peer norms are associated with personal use of illicit substances ...
McAlaney, J. +32 more
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Social Norms: Interactions Between Descriptive and Injunctive Norms
, 2023 The present study investigates how people make assumptions about the frequency of behavior based on injunctive norms ...
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