Social Health, Social Pressure, and Social Immunity
The article addresses the problem of social health as a basic factor of positive sociocultural environment in the context of globalization. The research objective was to define the content of social health as a balance of such categories as social immunity and social pressure.
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A simple stress test of experimenter demand effects [PDF]
As a stress test of experimenter demand effects, we run an experiment where subjects can physically destroy coupons awarded to them. About one subject out of three does.
Fleming, Piers, Zizzo, Daniel John
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Investigating the Effects of Work and Social Stress Factors on Job Performance of Auditors [PDF]
Introduction: Job stress is a stress that a particular person is under when performing a certain occupation, and which is created through interactions between work conditions and the characteristics of the worker.
M. Salehi Dashti, R. Saedi (Ph. D.)
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Motivations for an organisation within a developing country to report social responsibility information : evidence from Bangladesh [PDF]
Purpose – The aim of the paper is to describe and explain, using a combination of interviews and content analysis, the social and environmental reporting practices of a major garment export organisation within a developing country.
Deegan, Craig, Islam, Muhammad
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Humans employ a number of strategies to improve their position in their given social hierarchy. Overclaiming involves presenting oneself as having more knowledge than one actually possesses, and it is typically invoked to increase one’s social standing ...
Birgitta Taylor-Lillquist +7 more
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What Motivates Restaurant Customers to Tip: Evidence from the Czech Republic
Although the literature on tipping is enormous, it is still unclear what motivates people to tip. In particular, it is unresolved how tips depend on service quality, patronage frequency, and group sizes, why people tip more for better service if they do,
Michal Kvasnička
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Opinions and Social Pressure [PDF]
Solomon Asch was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, 1958-1960 and 1970; a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Public Health Service, 1959-1960; and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1976-77). He was awarded the Nicholas Murray Butler Medal from Columbia University in 1962 and the Distinguished Scientific ...
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Life events and acute cardiovascular reactions to mental stress: a cohort study [PDF]
Objective: This study addressed the issue of whether frequent exposure to life events is associated with aggravation or blunting of cardiovascular reactions to acute mental stress.
Carroll, Douglas +4 more
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Women football observers’ experiences: a perspective from system justification and glass ceiling
IntroductionThe legitimization theory of the system explains that despite people’s inherent drive towards personal and group interests, they tend to support social systems. Understanding the sources of social pressure and the glass ceiling perceptions of
Yeliz Eratli Şirin, Günseli ÖZ
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A qualitative exploration of whether lesbian and bisexual women are 'protected' from sociocultural pressure to be thin [PDF]
Heterosexual women in Western cultures are known to experience body image concerns, dieting and disordered eating as a result of intense social pressures to be thin. However, it is theorised that lesbian and bisexual women belong to a subculture that is ‘
Brown LS +6 more
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