The stability of autokinetic judgments.

Rohrer, John H.; Baron, Sam; Hoffman, Edward L.; Swander, D. V.

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“…With each successive group judgment, individuals' estimates converged until a shared value, a group norm, emerged. Interestingly, subsequent research demonstrated that this arbitrary norm still influenced judgments a year later [46].…”

Section: Convergence Across People and Timementioning

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Social Psychological Dimensions of Bioenergy Development and Public Acceptance

Wegener

Kelly

2008

Bioenerg. Res.

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The best technology does no good unless people use it. Thus, the future of biofuels depends not only on development of effective and efficient technologies but also on the social, economic, and political climate within which people decide to use or avoid these new fuel sources and technologies. On a social psychological level, individual behaviors are often guided by people's attitudes toward the behavior or objects involved and by the norms established by others within the social setting. Therefore, understanding technology adoption requires an understanding of how public attitudes and beliefs are formed or changed, as well as the implications of these changes for social norms. We provide an overview of basic social psychology research connecting attitudes and norms to individual behavior, and we describe implications of these social factors for biofuel development and use.Bioenergy promises to supply a substantial portion of the transportation fuel that drives much of the world economy. But what will be necessary for this considerable promise to be realized? To be sure, many technological advances stand between the current predominant use of biofuel as a gasoline additive (at least in the United States of America, USA) and use of biofuel as a primary transportation fuel. However, even the best technology will not live up to its potential if producers and consumers do not embrace the technology. Many individual, social, political, and societallevel factors are likely to influence consumer behaviors. We believe that analyses of economics, policy alternatives, public/political technology acceptance, and energy-related decision making can increase the ultimate effectiveness of new technologies (see http://www.purdue.edu/dp/energy/ research/SEPAE.php). Each of these factors should feed into energy-related behaviors, including investment by companies or individuals, use of new energy-related products, and support for policy-makers who champion particular energy policies.Examination of public acceptance of new technologies will benefit from analyses at many levels. Psychologists, consumer scientists, and behavioral economists might focus on specific attitudes, beliefs, and decision processes that influence the behaviors of individuals. Political scientists and economists might examine policy options and their implications for investment by companies or for support by political parties or candidates. Sociologists and political scientists might examine societal institutions and structural factors that influence public opinion, voting, or support for regulations. And individual researchers in many of these areas may cross domains to examine similar topics in different ways, according to the disciplinary lenses they tend to wear. Many perspectives may be helpful in assessing the potential benefits, costs, and barriers to use of new energy technologies, including bioenergy.One proactive way for multi-disciplinary participation in the energy transition is to incorporate social as well as

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Social Psychological Dimensions of Bioenergy Development and Public Acceptance

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Kelly

2008

Bioenerg. Res.

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“…The effect of the descriptive norms in the Sherif experiment can last over a year, even when individuals are tested individually, without the group being present. (Rohrer, Baron, Hoffman, & Swander, 1954).…”

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Regulating Behavior in Online Communities

2012

Building Successful Online Communities

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“…Because of the important implications that such phenomena have for social life and human behavior, the whys and whens of social influence processes have been the focus of a great deal of theory and research. For example, investigators have explored how a desire for acceptance from others ( Sal (urai, 1975 ), the promise of social rewards ( Bandura, 1965 ), concerns with justice or equity (Jacl(son & Harl(ins, 1985 ), the potential informational value of other people's actions ( Rohrer, Baron, Hoffman, & Swander, 1954 ), and schema activation ( Carver, Ganellen, Froming, & Chambers, 1983 ) might contribute to individuals' susceptibility to other people's actions. However, despite this intensive examination of social influence processes and a general appreciation of their potential consequences for decision mal(ing and interpersonal relations, the research on this topic has been unbalanced.…”

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Failure to recognize the effect of implicit social influence on the presentation of self.

Vorauer¹,

Miller²

1997

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Two studies demonstrated that individuals can fail to detect changes in their actions that are induced by implicit social influence. In both studies, observers' impressions indicated that actors matched the positivity of their remarl(s about themselves to the positivity of another person's self-description. However, actors' own judgments of the types of impressions they conveyed revealed that they did not perceive the effect of the other's self-description on their self-presentation. Study 1 suggested that actors' relatively poor access to their own nonverbal behavior could not fully account for their failure to perceive how they were influenced. Study 2 indicated that actors' metaperceptions were connected to actors' general beliefs about themselves, whereas observers' impressions were not. The "blindness" effect was driven primarily by actors low in self-esteem. Implications for self-presentation and other social phenomena are discussed.

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The stability of autokinetic judgments.

Abstract: 2. DOUGLASS, W. B. An investigation of various scoring methods for the McKinney Reporting Test. Unpublished master's thesis, Univer. of Missouri, 1952.

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Social Psychological Dimensions of Bioenergy Development and Public Acceptance

Social Psychological Dimensions of Bioenergy Development and Public Acceptance

Regulating Behavior in Online Communities

Failure to recognize the effect of implicit social influence on the presentation of self.

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