BACKGROUND The Social Norms Approach, with its focus on positive behaviour and its consensus orientation, is a health promotion intervention of relevance to the context of a Health Promoting University. In particular, the approach could assist with addressing excessive alcohol consumption. AIM This article aims to discuss the link between the Social Norms Approach and the Health Promoting Uni...

In the era of information, administration of personal data protection mingles with expectations of access to information as well as the overall sense of cyber (in)security. A failure to appropriately consider the system of data processing relationships easily reduces personal data protection to assurances in letter. The complexity of contemporary data transactions demands a systemic and structu...

Each t-norm can be identified with its Cayley tomonoid, which consists of pairwise commuting order-preserving functions from the real unit interval to itself. Cayley tomonoids provide an easily manageable, yet versatile tool for the construction of t-norms. To give evidence to this claim, we review and reformulate several construction methods that are known in the literature. We adopt, on the o...

• Investigates individual reports of flight shame in different travel situations. Flight was more pronounced when going on holiday, than for visiting family and friends, or travelling work. consistently associated with personal norms injunctive norms, but not descriptive norms.

To facilitate lifelike conversations with the human players in interactive dramas, virtual characters should follow similar conversational norms as those that govern human-human conversations. In this paper, we present a model of conversational norms in a decision-theoretic framework. This model is employed in the Thespian interactive drama system. In Thespian, characters have explicit goals of...

introduction: although the contribution of organizational learning to employee organizational performance is well documented, the mechanisms that explain such relationship remain unclear. accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the interactional role of organizational learning and informal norms in accountability and job performance of the staff in a medical department. methods...

Gambling is an important public health concern. To better understand gambling behavior, we conducted a classroom-based survey that assessed the role of the theory of planned behavior (TPB; i.e., intentions, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and attitudes) in past-year gambling and gambling frequency among college students. Results from this research support the utility of the TPB ...

The present study examined personal and social correlates of poor sportspersonship among youth sport participants. Male and female athletes (n = 676) in the fifth through eighth grades from three geographic regions of the U.S. participated in the study. Young athletes involved in basketball, soccer, football, hockey, baseball/ softball, or lacrosse completed a questionnaire that tapped poor spo...

Abstract Human decision-making is affected by a diversity of factors including material cost–benefit considerations, normative and cultural influences, learning conformity with peers external authorities (e.g. cultural, religious, political, organisational). Also important are dynamically changing personal perceptions the situation beliefs about actions expectations others as well psychological...