PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore the associations between depressive symptoms and perceived social support on blood pressure in African American women. DATA SOURCES This cross-sectional study was conducted among 159 African American women from multiple sites in the Detroit Metro area. CONCLUSIONS Results from this study found that both higher systolic and diastolic blood pre...

We examine the consequences of vote transparency in committees whosemembers fear being blamed by partisan observers for casting an unfavorable vote. We show that such social pressure, like optimal taxation, can improve the collective decision by mitigating a voting externality. Hence, institutions may adopt public voting when the fear of blame is too little, and secret voting when the fear is t...

This paper proposes and characterizes a sequential decision aggregation system consisting of agents performing binary sequential hypothesis testing, and a fusion center which collects the individual decisions and reaches the global decision according to some threshold rule. Individual decision makers’ behaviors in the system are influenced by other decision makers, through a model for social pr...

BACKGROUND Retention of participants in cohort studies is important for validity. One way to promote retention is by sending a persuasive cover letter with surveys. The study aimed to compare the effectiveness of a covering letter containing social pressure with a standard covering letter on retention in a health cohort study. Social pressure involves persuading people to behave in a certain wa...

The present study is a first attempt to experimentally test the impact of two specific social factors, namely social conformity pressure and a sense of being watched, on participants' judgments of the artistic quality of aesthetic objects. We manipulated conformity pressure with a test form in which a photograph of each stimulus was presented together with unanimously low (downward pressure) or...

We introduce a new opinion dynamics model where group of agents holds two kinds opinions: inherent and declared. Each agent's is fixed unobservable by the other agents. At each time step, broadcast their declared opinions on social network, which are governed agents' pressure. In particular, we assume that may declare not aligned with to conform neighbors. This raises natural ques...

this study investigates the effect of women's employment on family and social relations in the city of aran & bidgol. the theoretical framework of research is role conflict theory. survey methods is used in this study and the statistical population included all women working in the city of aran & bidgol. using cochran's formula and simple random sampling, 250 married women were select...