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Identifying and understanding barriers to sexually transmissible infection testing among young people [PDF]

, 2013
Background: To counter the disproportionate impact of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) among young people and encourage higher levels of STI testing, it is necessary to identify the factors that influence STI testing.
Ajzen, Becker, Bennett, Bish, Consedine, Cunningham, Cunningham, de Visser, Fife-Schaw, Fishbein, Godin, Gollwitzer, Green, Grulich, Health Protection Agency., Johnson, Llewellyn, McEachan, Nancy O'Neill, Richard Oliver de Visser, Rissel, Rivis, Saunders, Sheeran   +23 more
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Positive alcohol expectancies and injunctive drinking norms in drinking to cope motives and alcohol use among older adults

Addictive Behaviors Reports, 2019
Background: Studies indicate older adults have increased risk for alcohol-related harms (e.g., risk for falls) that can manifest at lower levels of consumption than younger adults.
Tomorrow D. Wilson, Linda Ann Wray, Rob J. Turrisi   +2 more
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Implementing Injunctive Social Norms Using Defeasible Reasoning

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2015
Believability requires video game characters to consider their actions within the context of social norms. Social norms involve a broad range of behavioral defaults, obligations, and injunctions unrelated to strictly causal reasoning.  Defeasible reasoning involves rationally compelling but deductively invalid arguments, such as reasoning with rules ...
Joseph A. Blass, Ian D. Horswill
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Communicating norms to increase food delivery customers’ sustainable waste management behaviors

Future Foods
This study examines the influences of norms on food delivery customers’ pro-environmental behavioral intentions, which ultimately affect sustainable waste management behaviors (SWMBs).
Piyapong Janmaimool, Surapong Chudech, Samattaphong Khajohnmanee, Jaruwan Chontanawat   +3 more
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Neighbourhood fast food exposure and consumption: the mediating role of neighbourhood social norms

International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 2020
Background The association between the residential fast food environment and diet has gained growing attention. However, why the food environment affects food consumption is under-examined.
Sofie van Rongen, Maartje P. Poelman, Lukar Thornton, Gavin Abbott, Meng Lu, Carlijn B. M. Kamphuis, Kirsten Verkooijen, Emely de Vet   +7 more
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Social and interpersonal approaches to design for behaviour change [PDF]

, 2012
Copyright @ 2012 Social Science Electronic PublishingThis paper reviews a diverse set of social and interpersonal infl uence approaches and techniques which could be relevant to designers seeking to infl uence behavior change for social and environmental
Lockton, D
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Exploring the Impact of Meat Alternative Labeling Regulations on the U.S. Meat Consumption Patterns

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global demand for conventional meat continues to rise, but it is also associated with substantial environmental and health challenges. In response, meat alternatives have gained popularity, sparking debates over meat alternative labeling regulations. This study investigates the effects of meat alternative labeling regulations in the United
Jeong Hun Ji, Sang Hyeon Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Group Norms as Moderator in the Effect of Cross Group Friendship on Outgroup Attitude: a Study on Interreligious Group in Indonesia [PDF]

, 2016
Past studies indicate that the effect of intergroup contact on outgroup attitude is not isolated to contextual factors. One of the contextual factors that has begun to be studied is group norm.
Yustisia, W. (Whinda)
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Sustainability Transitions in SMEs: Investigating Net‐Zero Adoption, Carbon Footprint Reduction, and Performance Outcomes

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research empirically validates an integrated framework that explains net‐zero‐emission adoption among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Extending the Technological‐Organizational‐Environmental (TOE) framework with the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) perspective, the research explains how internal capabilities
Alanood Alremeithi, Fauzia Jabeen, Sherine Farouk, Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of cultural values and hierarchical social norms on buying counterfeits online: a 17-country study

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionAs a globally prevalent phenomenon, buying counterfeit products harms consumers, economies, societies, governments, and the environment. The study examined the hierarchy of injunctive normative influence (personal vs. societal) on counterfeit
Anastasia Kononova, Patricia Huddleston, Moldir Moldagaliyeva, Heijin Lee, Saleem Alhabash, Saleem Alhabash   +5 more
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