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“Be a Man”: The Role of Social Pressure in Eliciting Men’s Aggressive Cognition

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2020
Threatening a man’s manhood—but not a woman’s womanhood—elicits aggression. In two studies, we found evidence that this aggression is related to the social pressure men experience to “be a man.” In Study 1a, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis to
A. Stanaland, S. Gaither
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Blood pressure and social class

Public Health, 1981
Occupational mortality analysis for men aged 15 to 64 in England and Wales shows a social class gradient for causes of death that are epidemiologically linked with blood pressure with higher death rates in lower classes. The relationship increases to a maximum around age 30 and thereafter declines in magnitude.
J. Grirnley Evans, W.M.G. Tunbridge
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Response of Prisoners to Social Pressure

Psychological Reports, 1967
Each of 24 prisoners as one of a group of 8 persons gave 40% conforming judgments on Asch's line-length task. Significant positive rs obtained between educational levels claimed and tested and between IQ and tested educational level. r was negative but significant for educational level and number of conforming responses.
Michael M. Karpan, Aline H. Kidd
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Social status, social context, and arterial blood pressure

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 1997
As social change and economic development have proceeded, the prevalence of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases, has increased in the developing world. In part this is due to the adoption of diets and other health behaviors characteristics of industrialized nations; in part it is a function of changing social and economic circumstances.
William W. Dressler, James R. Bindon
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Green hotel adoption: a personal choice or social pressure?

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2019
Purpose This study aims to examine the potential guest perception of green hotel attributes (GHAs) and the underlying mechanism through which GHA perception influences attitude toward green hotels, intention to stay at green hotels and willingness to ...
M. Balaji, Yangyang Jiang, S. Jha
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Hypocrisy and Strategic Social Pressure [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
We develop a model in which costly voting in a large two-party election is a sequentially rational choice of strategic, self-interested players who can reward fellow voters by forming stronger ties in a network formation coordination game. The predictions match a variety of stylized facts, including explaining why an individual's prosociality may ...
Alex J. Clark, Nicholas Tenev
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The effect of social pressure from family and friends on turnout

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2018
Recent research about the decision to vote or abstain finds a causal effect of social networks and social pressure. Yet this literature does not examine how this social pressure is exerted and by whom.
A. Blais, Carol Galais, Maxime Coulombe
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Pressure Groups and Social Movements

2009
‘Pressure groups’ and ‘social movements’ were not a central concern of the first Australian political scientists. The earliest studies focused on the structures of government and the role of formal institutions. ‘Pressure groups’ were only a marginal reference in these works, and ‘social movements’ were not referred to at all.
Jan W. van Deth, Kenneth Newton
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Social pressure and personal preference

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 1971
Abstract The present study investigated Crutchfield's (1955) contention that preference judgments are uniquely immune to group pressure. Results strongly indicated that group pressure did indeed influence preference judgments.
John M. Levine, Vernon L. Allen
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Social pressures for assortative mating

Personality and Individual Differences, 1997
Two experiments explored the degree to which dating couples assort on physical and psychological traits. Experiment I demonstrates that 59 couples show similarities on a number of physical and non-physical (psychological) traits. Correlations are significantly different from randomized pairs and from zero when individuals rate the degree to which their
Del Thiessen, Robert K. Young, Melinda Delgado   +2 more
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