Deviant Behavior as a Form of Social Divergence

Socially Deviant Behavior

(Author) A. self-administered questionnaire was used to'compare Tselected driving, personality, and psychosocial variables 'of 306 convicted male drunk drivers with those of 289 alcoholics and 269 controls. She drunk driver group fell between the other,groups on many parameters but resembled the control groUp on as many others. While some 40% of the drunk drivers appeareA to be alcoholics, they...

Social learning and deviant behavior: a specific test of a general theory.

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A cooperate-defect model for the spread of deviant behavior in social networks

We present a game-theoretic model for the spread of deviant behavior in online social networks. We utilize a two-strategy framework wherein each player’s behavior is classified as normal or deviant and evolves according to the cooperate-defect payoff scheme of the classic prisoner’s dilemma game. We demonstrate convergence of individual behavior over time to a final strategy vector and indicate...

Domestic Violence and Deviant Behavior

Antecedents of deviant responses: Predicting from a general theory of deviant behavior.

A statement of a general theory of deviant behavior asserts that four factors or processes intervene between the development of self-rejecting attitudes and adoption of deviant patterns. An earlier report demonstrated a relationship between antecedent negative self-attitudes and subsequent increases in seven variables that reflected these four factors. The present paper tests hypotheses that th...