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  2. Normative social influence - Wikipedia

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    The need for a positive relationship with the people around leads us to conformity. [4] This fact often leads to people exhibiting public compliance—but not necessarily private acceptance—of the group's social norms in order to be accepted by the group. [5] Social norms refers to the unwritten rules that govern social behavior. [6]

  3. Social norm - Wikipedia

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    In Figure 1, the range of tolerable behavior extends is 3, as the group approves of all behavior from 4 to 7 and 7-4=3. Carrying over our coffee example again, we can see that first-years only approve of having a limited number of cups of coffee (between 4 and 7); more than 7 cups or fewer than 4 would fall outside the range of tolerable behavior.

  4. Conformity - Wikipedia

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    Conformity or conformism is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, politics or being like-minded. [1] Norms are implicit, specific rules, guidance shared by a group of individuals, that guide their interactions with others.

  5. Normativity - Wikipedia

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    Though philosophers disagree about how normativity should be understood; it has become increasingly common to understand normative claims as claims about reasons. [4] As Derek Parfit explains: We can have reasons to believe something, to do something, to have some desire or aim, and to have many other attitudes and emotions, such as fear ...

  6. Theory of planned behavior - Wikipedia

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    The theory of planned behavior. The theory of planned behavior (TPB) is a psychological theory that links beliefs to behavior.The theory maintains that three core components, namely, attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control, together shape an individual's behavioral intentions.

  7. Normality (behavior) - Wikipedia

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    Normality is a behavior that can be normal for an individual (intrapersonal normality) when it is consistent with the most common behavior for that person. Normal is also used to describe individual behavior that conforms to the most common behavior in society (known as conformity).

  8. Social fact - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, social facts are values, cultural norms, and social structures that transcend the individual and can exercise social control. The French sociologist Émile Durkheim defined the term, and argued that the discipline of sociology should be understood as the empirical study of social facts. For Durkheim, social facts "consist of ...

  9. Deductive-nomological model - Wikipedia

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    Aristotle's scientific explanation in Physics resembles the DN model, an idealized form of scientific explanation. [7] The framework of Aristotelian physics—Aristotelian metaphysics—reflected the perspective of this principally biologist, who, amid living entities' undeniable purposiveness, formalized vitalism and teleology, an intrinsic morality in nature. [8]