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- Allwood, Carl Martin, 1952, et al.
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Does consulting with others affect answerability judgments of difficult questions?
- 2016
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Ingår i: Social Influence. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1553-4510 .- 1553-4529. ; 11:1, s. 40-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- People's judgments of the answerability of questions relating to how things are in the world can have important consequences for society and people's lives. Thirty-one individuals and 30 pairs made answerability judgments of 20 general knowledge questions, many with less known, or unknown, answers. Four questions had high expected consensus regarding their answerability (consensus questions) and the rest had less expected consensus with respect to their answerability (non-consensus questions). The pairs showed two polarization effects: pairs gave higher answerability ratings for questions with answerability ratings over 80% and lower ratings than individuals for questions with the lower answerability ratings. Stronger consensus-seeking tendencies and a more active memory environment in the pairs may have contributed to these results.
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- Bergquist, Magnus, 1983, et al.
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Self-persuading norms: Adding a self-persuasion technique strengthens the influence of descriptive social norms
- 2022
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Ingår i: Social Influence. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1553-4510 .- 1553-4529. ; 17:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Social norms have been implemented to change a variety of behaviors. Yet, these studies show noticeable dispersion of effects. We suggest that such dispersion is partially due to people perceiving reasons for following a certain norm to be more or less appealing. In testing this proposition, we couple descriptive norms with a self-persuading technique (i.e. the self-persuading norm). We propose that the self-persuading norm operate in two steps: 1) self-persuasion leads to value-matched information, 2) value-matched information is more self-relevant, making the norm more influential. Across three experiments, we consistently found that self-persuading norms are more influential than simple descriptive norms and a control condition. The practical applications are straightforward: adding self-persuasive content seems to strengthen the descriptive norm.
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- Buratti, Sandra, 1983, et al.
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The effects of question format and co-witness peer discussion on the confidence accuracy of children’s testimonies
- 2014
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Ingår i: Social influence. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1553-4510 .- 1553-4529. ; 9:3, s. 189-205
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Different types of social influence can affect eyewitness testimony. This study examined the effects of question format (free recall and prompts) and co-witness peer discussion on the confidence accuracy of memory reports of children aged 9–11 years. Pairs of children watched one of two perspectives of a film. Half of the pairs discussed the film; the rest discussed non-relevant topics. Children responding to prompts had a lower proportion of correct memory reports, were less confident, and showed poorer confidence accuracy compared with free recall. During free recall, the children showed near perfect confidence accuracy. No peer discussion effects were found; however, 33% of the children in the film discussion condition reported commission errors.
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- Jansson, Fredrik, et al.
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Social consensus influences ethnic diversity preferences
- 2018
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Ingår i: Social influence. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1553-4510 .- 1553-4529. ; 13:4, s. 192-208
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- There is widespread segregation between workplaces along ethnic lines. We expand upon previous research on segregation and social influence by testing the effect of the latter on personal diversity preferences, specifically in employees' selection into hypothetical workplaces. In a survey study with 364 European American respondents in three waves, participants complied with social consensus preferences for either more or less workplace diversity. The new preference was sufficiently internalized to be retained largely unaltered a week later. Simulations suggest a self-reinforcing effect, where accurate social consensus information may be sufficient to change preferences. Given that initial choices were polarized, perceived social consensus can vary highly between people in society, and influencing this perception may feed back into greater acceptance of minorities.
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- Knapton, Holly, et al.
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The social activist : conformity to the ingroup following rejection as a predictor of political participation
- 2015
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Ingår i: Social influence. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1553-4510 .- 1553-4529. ; 10:2, s. 97-108
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Humans have an overwhelming desire to belong to social groups and if rejected, may act ingratiatory, and conform more easily, to a new accepting group (Williams, 2007) to establish themselves as a valued group member. We investigated whether following rejection, individuals were more willing to participate in and condone varying political actions against an excluding and opposing organization on behalf of a new organization. Results showed that rejected participants were more inclined to be politically active toward the outgroup, and this effect was magnified in those high in rejection sensitivity. Effects were mediated by thwarted inclusionary needs, suggesting that actions directed toward an outgroup may be driven by pro-social belongingness needs rather than outgroup aggression.
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- Moche, Hajdi, et al.
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Helping the child or the adult? Systematically testing the identifiable victim effect for child and adult victims
- 2021
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Ingår i: Social influence. - : Routledge; Taylor & Francis. - 1553-4510 .- 1553-4529. ; 16:1, s. 78-92
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Is the identifiable victim effect (IVE; helping a single identified victim more than a statistical victim) stronger for child victims than adult victims? In this paper, we test the effect of identifying a victim and whether that victim is a child or adult on helping motivation and donation behaviors. In three studies (N = 1508) with different samples from different countries, we find no main effect of identifiability on any of our measures, and no support that the IVE mainly occurs for children. However, we find an age effect; child victims receive more help (studies 1a-1b) or evoke a greater motivation to help (study 2) than adult victims.
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- Sandberg, Linn, et al.
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The online hostility hypothesis : representations of Muslims in online media
- 2023
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Ingår i: Social influence. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1553-4510 .- 1553-4529. ; 18:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using a large data set of online media content in eight European countries, this paper broadens the empirical investigation of the online hostility hypothesis, which posits that interactions on social sites such as blogs and forums contain more hostile expressions toward minority groups than social interactions offline or in editorial news media. Overall, our results are consistent with the online hostility hypothesis when comparing news media content with social sites, but we find that negatively charged representations are common in both media types. It is instead the amount of attention to Muslims and Islam on social sites that most clearly differs and is the main driver of online hostility in the online media environment more broadly conceived.
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