Social norms surrounding sexuality, pregnancy, and childbearing may help guide women's health-related behaviors. In this study, we explore low-income women's perceptions of fertility-related norms by allowing women to describe their experiences with normative expectations. Semistructured interviews (n = 30) suggested that women in low-income subject positions articulate descriptive norms that g...

Self-determination theory has been applied to the prediction of a number of health-related behaviors with self-determined or autonomous forms of motivation generally more effective in predicting health behavior than non-self-determined or controlled forms. Research has been confined to examining the motivational predictors in single health behaviors rather than comparing effects across multiple...

This study examined the associations between prosocial and academically oriented behaviors and social preference as a function of individual (i.e., gender), developmental (i.e., grade) and contextual factors (i.e., group descriptive norms). Data were gathered from a sample of 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade children (51% male, 97.5% African American) in 34 classrooms from high-poverty inner-city neighbo...

Chimpanzee is the most intellectual species among the animal kingdom. One-year (2009-2010) study on Chimpanzee was conducted to access the impact of captivity on their social behavior at Lahore Zoo. The group consisted of two pairs; one adult and other sub-adult housed in two separate cages. The data was recorded by instantaneous point-sampling technique to determine the frequency, prevalence a...

GETTING OLD AT THE TOP: THE ROLE OF AFFECTIVE ABILITIES ANDLEADERSHIP ROLE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGEAND LEADERSHIP BEHAVIORSbyGREGORY R. THRASHERMay 2017Advisor: Dr. Marcus W. DicksonMajor: Psychology (IndustrialOrganizational)Degree: Doctor of PhilosophyLeadership behaviors and the outcomes they foster have historically been a centr...

This study uses data from matched sets of suppliers, manufacturers and customers to examine the influence of the manufacturer’s market orientation on the behaviors of salespersons and purchasers, the impact of these behaviors on relationships with customers and suppliers, and the effect of these relationships on the manufacturer’s financial performance. The results show that market orientation ...

INTRODUCTION Over the years, the information system design process (Gero and Kazakov, 1996; Goldschmidt, 1997; Guindon, 1990; Jeffries et al., 1981; Parnas and Clements, 1986) has been investigated using a variety of perspectives. Researchers have examined cognitive aspects of design (Goldschmidt, 1997; Guindon, 1990; Guindon, Krasner, and Curtis, 1986; Rowe, 1987; Sen, 1997), design strategies...

Western children first show signs of mirror self-recognition (MSR) from 18 to 24 months of age, the benchmark index of emerging self-concept. Such signs include self-oriented behaviors while looking at the mirror to touch or remove a mark surreptitiously placed on the child’s face. The authors attempted to replicate this finding across cultures using a simplified version of the classic “mark te...