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  2. Peer pressure - Wikipedia

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    The last norm defined by the study is called "peer pressure" by the authors, and is used to describe direct encouragement or pressure by a person's peers to engage in sexual behavior. The review found that indirect norms (descriptive and injunctive) had a stronger effect on a person's decision to engage in sexual behavior than direct peer pressure.

  3. Abilene paradox - Wikipedia

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    Based on an online experiment with more than 600 participants, being prosocial and generally caring about the implications of one's actions on others (measured by the social value orientation measure) has been shown to increase the likelihood that an individual finds themselves in an Abilene Paradox with others, especially if they are not the first to have a say.

  4. Social influence - Wikipedia

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    Reactance is the adoption of a view contrary to the view that a person is being pressured to accept, perhaps due to a perceived threat to behavioral freedoms. This phenomenon has also been called anticonformity. While the results are the opposite of what the influencer intended, the reactive behavior is a result of social pressure. [10]

  5. A Very Short Story - Wikipedia

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    Ernest Hemingway's relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky was the basis for this story. "A Very Short Story" is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway.It was first published as a vignette, or chapter, in the 1924 Paris edition titled In Our Time, and later rewritten and added to Hemingway's first American short story collection In Our Time, published by Boni & Liveright in 1925.

  6. Girls Under Pressure - Wikipedia

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    The book follows the story of a 14-year-old girl named Ellie who is struggling with issues of body image, peer pressure, and self-esteem. Like the rest of the series, Girls under Pressure is told from the viewpoint of Eleanor "Ellie" Allard, a plump thirteen-year-old girl who lives with her father, her stepmother, Anna, and her little half ...

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Fingerhood said another major reason was the pressure from friends and relatives who considered Suboxone a “cop-out.” They wanted to be sober, but were told by family they had do it without medication. “At least half have felt the pressure of people saying you shouldn’t use the medication to help you get clean,” Fingerhood said.

  8. Opinion - Grading the Trump-Harris debate — the good, the bad ...

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    Harris, still relatively undefined, came into the debate with something to prove. For many voters, this was their first look at the vice president in action; she had to come across as someone they ...

  9. Social Stories - Wikipedia

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    They can also stress the important points, refer to a law or rule to reassure the learner. Control sentences: identify personal strategies the individual will use to recall and apply information. They are written by the individual after reviewing the Social Story. Cooperative sentences: describe what others will do to assist the individual ...