Two studies tested whether online social networking technologies influence health behavioral social norms, and in turn, personal health behavioral intentions. In Study 1, experimental participants browsed peers' Facebook photos on a college network with a low prevalence of sexually suggestive content. Participants estimated the percentage of their peers who have sex without condoms, and rated t...

AIMS To examine whether inclusion of both self- and peer-referent items in the context of a single social norms drinking questionnaire plays an active role in producing the much-reported tendency for young people to overestimate the extent of peers' alcohol-related behaviour and the permissiveness of their attitudes towards alcohol. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS AND MEASUREMENTS In a between-...

The likelihood of resisting gender-stereotypic peer group norms, along with expectations about personal resistance, was investigated in 9- to 10-year-olds and 13- to 14-year-olds (N = 292). Participants were told about a stereotype conforming group (boys playing football; girls doing ballet) and a stereotype nonconforming group (boys doing ballet; girls playing football). Contrary to expectatio...

A sample of 689 adolescents (grades 7-12) from two Midwestern communities who had been identified by peers as members of one of three major peer groups responded to a self-report survey measuring perceptions of peer pressure in five areas of behavior: involvement with peers, school involvement, family involvement, conformity to peer norms, and misconduct. Perceived pressures toward peer involve...

Triangular norms, or t-norms for short, play an important role for the semantics of fuzzy logics. Although an enormous number of examples and a remarkable number of construction methods for this kind of operation has been established, a uniform approach is still outstanding. This paper is devoted to a specific algebraic-geometrical framework within which t-norms, up to isomorphism, can be descr...

The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of descriptive and injunctive peer norms on the engagement in risky sexual online behavior. A four-wave longitudinal study among a representative sample of 1,016 Dutch adolescents (12-17 years old) was conducted. Two autoregressive cross-lagged structural equation models were analyzed to investigate the relationship between perceptions of p...

in this article, the social capital concept has been thoroughly surveyed. consequently, this concept and its related dimensions and factors has been extracted from imam ali's point of view (nahjolbalaghah letters). by implementing the extracting adaptive concepts and exerting suitable qualitative research methods, an islamic framework for social capital improvement in islamic communities h...

The developmental model of subjective group dynamics hypothesizes that peer exclusion during middle childhood involves inferences about group dynamics. To test the generality of this prediction, children judged, within minimal groups, peers whose behavior was loyal versus disloyal (Study 1: n = 46, mean age = 113 months) or morally acceptable versus unacceptable (Study 2: n = 121, mean age = 90...

BACKGROUND It is currently unknown if school-based social norms interventions are effective in preventing harmful alcohol consumption and other drug use among adolescents in Denmark. This paper describes the social norms-based programme The GOOD life and the design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial to test its effectiveness. METHODS/DESIGN The intervention The GOOD life is composed of ...

Future Media Internet will entail the distribution and dispensation of high quality multimedia content in an efficient, supple, and personalized way through dynamic and heterogeneous environments. Over the last decade Peer-to-Peer (P2P) multimedia communications have gained significant attention by the research community that can be one of the potential enablers of Future Media Internet. In suc...