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Brain Sciences, 2020 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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J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2019 While many smartphone users experience social pressure to be available, only some perceive this as a burden. It was hypothesized that this form of social pressure is especially detrimental when it reduces self-control and hinders need satisfaction. Study
Annabell Halfmann, Diana Rieger
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Learners’ Beliefs and Communities Around Them: The Social Pressure to Learn Language
, 2020 This study used a mixed-methods design to investigate the effects of language learners’ subjective norm (SN) beliefs on learning English as a foreign language (EFL). To examine the perceived social pressure to learn EFL, two experiments were conducted in
Munassir Alhamami
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Law Enforcement Through Social Media Pressure
Law and Justice, 2022 Problems related to efforts to apply the law from the past have seized the attention of the Indonesian people because they are considered a very important phenomenon because it has the potential to have significant implications for Indonesian law which ...
Abdul Azis
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On the Role of Hypocrisy in Escaping the Tragedy of the Commons [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 We study the emergence of cooperation in large spatial public goods games. Without employing severe social-pressure against "defectors", or alternatively, significantly rewarding "cooperators", theoretical models typically predict a system collapse in a way that is reminiscent of the "tragedy-of-the-commons" metaphor. Drawing on a dynamic network model,
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Social dilemmas of sociality due to beneficial and costly contagion [PDF]
, 2022 Levels of sociality in nature vary widely. Some species are solitary; others live in family groups; some form complex multi-family societies. Increased levels of social interaction can allow for the spread of useful innovations and beneficial information, but can also facilitate the spread of harmful contagions, such as infectious diseases.
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Estimating True Beliefs in Opinion Dynamics with Social Pressure [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Social networks often exert social pressure, causing individuals to adapt their expressed opinions to conform to their peers. An agent in such systems can be modeled as having a (true and unchanging) inherent belief while broadcasting a declared opinion at each time step based on her inherent belief and the past declared opinions of her neighbors.
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Fast Consensus and Metastability in a Highly Polarized Social Network [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 A polarized social network is modeled as a system of interacting marked point processes with memory of variable length. Each point process indicates the successive times in which a social actor expresses a "favorable" or "contrary" opinion. After expressing an opinion, the social pressure on the actor is reset to 0, waiting for the group's reaction ...
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Stochastic Opinion Dynamics under Social Pressure in Arbitrary Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Social pressure is a key factor affecting the evolution of opinions on networks in many types of settings, pushing people to conform to their neighbors' opinions. To study this, the interacting Polya urn model was introduced by Jadbabaie et al., in which each agent has two kinds of opinion: inherent beliefs, which are hidden from the other agents and ...
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundSocial media addiction has increasingly been a critical social problem. We explored the association between peer pressure on mobile phone use and adolescent mobile social media addiction and tested whether self-esteem and self-concept clarity ...
Xiaopan Xu +4 more
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