Social norms, as a topic of inquiry, has garnered a lot of attention from a variety of
perspectives in recent years. Because of the rapidly-growing interest in social norms from …

Obesity during childhood and adolescence is a growing problem in the United States,
Canada, and around the world that leads to significant physical, psychological, and social …

This book describes the reasoned action approach, an integrative framework for the
prediction and change of human social behavior. It provides an up-to-date review of relevant …

Imagine that the neighborhood you are living in is covered with graffiti, litter, and unreturned
shop** carts. Would this reality cause you to litter more, trespass, or even steal? A thesis …

We revisit some ideas from our previous article on social norms by conceptualizing norms as
dynamic entities that both affect and are affected by human action; elaborating on the …

La 4e de couv. indique:" Communicating Health: A Culture-Centered Approach provides an
overview of health communication, focusing especially on the role that culture plays in these …

Recent attention on health-related information seeking has focused primarily on information
seeking within specific health and health risk contexts. This study attempts to shift some of …

Three field experiments are reported on the ability of printed normative messages to
influence conservation behavior among hotel guests. While prior research has shown that …

There is interest in the hypothesis that social norms are a determinant of healthy and
unhealthy dietary practices. The objective of our work was to assess the weight of evidence …

Recent research has found that dynamic norms—information about collective change in
behavior—can promote meaningful personal behavior change, even if that behavior is not …