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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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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 on Feminine Sexuality [PDF]

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 1976
A few years ago, I saw an article in a medical journal titled, "The Anti-Sexual Wife," and realized that the label "anti-sexual wife" represents one of the sexual pressures women face today, in addition to the double standard and the pressure to remain young.
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The Effects of Organizational Risk Appetite and Social Pressure on Aggressive Financial Reporting Behavior

, 2018
This study uses an experiment to investigate how an organization's risk appetite statement (conservative versus aggressive) and source of social pressure (conformity pressure from a peer versus obedience pressure from a superior) combine to influence ...
Alisa G. Brink, Andrea Gouldman, Lisa M. Victoravich   +2 more
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Social Pressure in International Lawmaking

2020
This chapter elaborates on humanitarian standards that were born out of a long and tortuous political process of social pressure. It presents a theoretical framework to understand the process of rule emergence and codification. It also looks at the process through which the humanitarian legalization of internal conflict became an issue of international
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Promoting the Youth Vote: The Role of Informational Cues and Social Pressure

Political Behavior, 2021
D. Bergan, Dustin Carnahan, Nazita Lajevardi, M. Medeiros, S. Reckhow, Kjerstin Thorson   +5 more
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Voluntary Regulation by the Pharmaceutical Industry—Which Role for the Shadow of Hierarchy and Social Pressure?

European Policy Analysis, 2017
In 2004, the voluntary FSA Codex was adopted by part of the German pharmaceutical industry and was revised several times in the subsequent 10 years.
Annette Elisabeth Töller
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I Only Have Eyes for You: Does Implicit Social Pressure Increase Voter Turnout?

, 2016
Get-out-the-vote mailers using explicit social pressure consistently increase electoral turnout; however, they often generate a negative reaction or backlash.
Richard E. Matland, G. Murray
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Social pressure, uncertainty, and cooperation

Economics of Governance, 2000
We analyse the role of uncertainty in a sequential game where players have to decide whether to contribute to a public project or not. A player's payoff may depend on his belief about the other player's action which allows us to model social pressure.
Steffen Huck, Dorothea Kübler
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Social Pressure in the Family and School

Australian Drug and Alcohol Review, 1986
Abstract: Most adolescents initially use drugs out of curiosity, or experimentally. Those who continue on to become problematic users need to be identified early so that preventive strategies can be used. At risk for substance misuse are those young people who are particularly vulnerable to adverse social pressures in their families and schools.
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