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		Social psychologists have noted that people and lower animals often behave differently when they are by themselves or in the presence of others.
		It was not long before social thinkers seized upon these discoveries as a basis for explaining numerous social phenomena, from the spread of opinion to the formation of crowds and the following of leaders.
		When the new discipline of social psychology was born at the beginning of this century, its first experiments were essentially adaptations of the suggestion demonstration.
	www.wadsworth.com /psychology_d/templates/student_resources/0155060678_rathus/ps/ps18.html (3345 words)

	Social Pressure as a Moral & Political Tool
		The concept of social pressure is morally and political neutral in that such pressure can be used for any purpose, good or bad, and to promote or attack any moral or political position whatsoever.
		So although social pressure can be powerful and effective, it is most effective when there are not opposing social pressures (at least within the milieu in question), and when it is intense and coming from lots of different people, from all sides.
		Social pressure is a necessary tool in the transformation of society, and in the consolidation of any new society.
	members.aol.com /ScottH9999/essays/social_pressure.htm (3128 words)

	High Blood Pressure - Social Security Disability
		High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is dangerous because it makes the heart work harder to pump blood to the body and it contributes to hardening of the arteries or atherosclerosis.
		In adults high blood pressure is defined as a systolic pressure of 140 mm Hg or greater and a diastolic pressure of 90 mm Hg or greater.
		High blood pressure is rarely a reason alone why the Social Security Administration (SSA) would restrict the level of work a claimant could do, rather the Social Security Administration (SSA) focuses on the possibility of organ damage due to high blood pressure that could affect motor skills in the claimant.
	www.socialsecurityhome.com /highbloodpressure.htm (161 words)

	The Mechanism of Copyright - frassle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Social pressure: social pressure uses the social norms of a group of consumers to support a certain behavior.
		Mechanical pressure: the mechanical pressure is the difficulty of performing the physical act of duplicating media.
		I'm not sure that I agree that the legal pressure is as limited in scope as the moral pressure — that is to say, the legal pressure presumably has a moral underpinning of one sort or another, but its moral support is distinct from the moral pressure pushing against copyright piracy.
	frassle.rura.org /theMechanismOf (1449 words)

	A Pilot Study of Seat Belt Use
		First, social science can add to knowledge about risk through basic research into how individuals and groups perceive and think about risk; appropriate topics would be perception, cognition, social influence, etc. The second area of contribution is on the applied side, specifically with regard to individual and group responses to risk.
		The pilot study manipulated normative social pressure in such a way that individuals' expressed intentions with regard to seat belt use were significantly increased.
		The normative social pressure used in the present study attempts to make these norms salient in the seat belt situation and to associate wearing seat belts with positive feelings related to conforming with these norms.
	www.piercelaw.edu /risk/vol3/summer/boehm.htm (4328 words)

	Chapter 14 Lecture Notes - Social Influences on Behavior
		According to Latane, the amount of pressure experienced by a target of social pressure increases as the number, strength, and immediacy of the sources of that pressure increase, and it decreases as the number of targets of that pressure increases.
		Social pressure to perform well-learned or habitual tasks, induced by the pressure of an audience, typically improves performance on well-learned or habitual tasks (social facilitation) and worsens performance on poorly-learned or novel tasks (social interference).
		Social pressure derives not just from the presence, expectations, and examples of others but also from their overt requests.
	www.usu.edu /psycho101/lectures/chp14socinflu/socinflu.html (2823 words)

	Peer Pressure in the 21st Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Often times, they pressure one another into having sex because of the fact that they feel as though, again, “everyone is doing it.” Adolescents often know very little about sex and often allow peer pressure to encourage such behavior (Kaplan 101).
		Social norms which society has placed on teenagers has made them think that one must be completely unaware of more important issues.
		With the various forms of brainwashing and the constant pressure which they face from their peers to be “standard,” it is no wonder that teenagers exhibit such strange behavior.
	www.damien-hs.edu /babbitt/peer_pressure_in_the_21st_century.htm (2833 words)

	EconLog, Poverty and Social Pressure, Arnold Kling: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The social pressure is family and community stroking the Individual, and claiming the greater culture is a racist turd.
		The social expectation was overwhelming, causing Sam not to seek traditional higher education, and we are left to wonder if his expansive intellect has allowed him to succeed in spite of his nonconformity.
		However, social pressure of one sort or another is behind each of these reasons, and the behavior would not be rational absent social pressure.
	econlog.econlib.org /archives/2004/11/poverty_and_soc.html (1680 words)

	Peer Pressure & Choices: How to Think for Yourself (In a World Where Everybody Wants to Do It for You)
		That way, you won't have to be someone who says "yes" when you mean "no," and spend the rest of your life in therapy, wondering why no one understands you and waiting for your 50-minute "hour" of therapy to be up.
		It means that we feel pressure (either from inside or outside ourselves) to be like other people.
		Peer pressure isn't always (or even usually) the obvious stuff they show in TV commercials.
	www.doitnow.org /pages/163.html (1267 words)

	ORCAS - Research Areas - Project - Teaching developmentally disabled students drug-refusal skills (initial study) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Social pressure, on the other hand, is a suggestion to do something the principal would probably consider a bad idea.
		The concept of social pressure is introduced, and viewers learn that social pressure occurs when people ask you to do something the principal would think is a bad idea.
		Once the social pressure unit has been mastered, J.T. has students view video stories about social encouragement (suggestions the principal would think are a good idea) and go through a similar set of exercises and remediation.
	www.orcasinc.com /research_areas/research_projects.html?index=26 (955 words)

	Latane et. al: Social Loafing
		Other social psychology studies would seem to suggest that individual performance does increase in a group for simple tasks with well-learned, dominant responses.
		However, from a social pressure perspective, the social pressure to pull is further diluted for each person with increasing group size.
		Social impact theory suggests that effort in group tasks should decrease as an inverse power function of the number of people in a group.
	faculty.babson.edu /krollag/org_site/soc_psych/latane_soc_loaf.html (879 words)

	x_peerpressure's Xanga Site
		Peer pressure is a social weapon in which people are forced to do things by their peers.
		Peer pressure is most common with teens because they are people who are still trying to find their identity.
		Peer pressure offers teens a choice, their decisions have a great affect on their future and what they become.
	www.xanga.com /home.aspx?user=x_peerpressure (439 words)

	Re: Social Pressure for SRS?
		The only real social pressure that I can speak about > is that one we all feel from our need to be liked, loved, wanted, or > needed.
		Social pressure does not cause one to have SRS or not.
		Pressure is the easiest way to describe it but it ammounts to a feeling of an unmet basic need if you want to define it in terms of needs, ala Dr Abraham Maslow.
	www.talkaboutsupport.com /group/alt.support.srs/messages/168467.html (417 words)

	Social Influence
		One reason could be that as the group size increases beyond three or four members, persons exposed to social pressure begin to suspect that pressure is being put on themin a pre-planned way.
		When an individual is the target on whom the conformity pressure is exerted, the social influence is seen to be a lot in the beginning, and then it is gradual.
		With the changing social scenario, which includes urbanization, higher education for women and women's employment, this tendency is changing, and perhaps, then, difference between the senders with respect to any aspect of social influences are not real.
	www.nos.org /psy12/p5h23.1.htm (2050 words)

	Social Psychology
		Tell them they will be discussing the level of punishment in small groups, and that no matter how much pressure they feel to conform, they should stick with their initial, extreme response.
		According to Bandura’s social cognitive theory, the best way to change behavior is to shift people’s overall image of what behaviors are considered normative within one’s peer group.
		To demonstrate the power of social influence to a skeptical class, a teacher recreates the atmosphere of Nazi Germany by instilling ideas of power, discipline, and superiority into his obeying students.
	www.abacon.com /baronbyrne/chapter9.html (4853 words)

	Teaching Teenagers to Resist Social Pressure
		Researchers who have studied how children respond to social pressures of all types have found that some are more likely than other to cave in.
		Learning to respond to social pressure is a skill that is separate from moral values and personal philosophies.
		Such simplistic approaches ignore the social pressure felt by teenagers and younger children, and do not give them a way of maintaining social relationships while refusing to give in.
	www.drkutner.com /parenting/articles/pressure.html (1208 words)

	Referees's decisions are influenced by spectator pressure
		One result was that the refs permitted appreciably more stoppage and injury time to home teams who were trailing their opponents when the game was played in stadiums without an athletics track.
		An additional observation also supports the theory that referees submit to spectator pressure: the closer the rival teams lived to each other, the smaller the preferential treatment given to the home team by the referee.
		For his study "Social pressure influencing individuals' decisions" Thomas Dohmen looked at a total of 3,519 first division matches between 1992 and 2003.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-05/uob-rda051705.php (689 words)

	Causes of Bulimia: Social Pressure, Abuse, Serotonin Imbalance?
		Social attitudes towards body image and losing weight, however, cannot be seen as the sole cause of bulimia.
		After all, the entire population is bombarded by social messages that equate thinness and losing weight equates with success and happiness.
		As with social influences on body image, however, not all bulimics report family abuse or families that placed abnormal significance on losing or gaining weight.
	www.psychiatric-disorders.com /eating-disorders/bulimia-causes.php (645 words)

	Peers and Their Relationship to Family - Parenting IS Prevention - ONDCP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(1995) examined social development and social control theories that suggest children with strong bonds to social groups with antidrug norms will be less likely to use drugs.
		Parental and peer pressure were examined in a study of 386 7th-, 9th-, and 11th-graders.
		In girls, social support was unrelated to substance abuse except for support from classmates, which was associated with more cigarette and marijuana use.
	www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov /publications/prevent/parenting/r_peers.html (1369 words)

	Social Pressure
		However, it does seem clear that people are able to influence others by pressuring them to act in a desired manner.
		As we grow older, we move into a new form of social pressure -- organizational culture or corporate culture -- the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one organization from another (Hofstede, 1997).
		These cultures, social pressure, etc. are guided by norms -- rules or laws that members of a group follow.
	www.nwlink.com /~donclark/performance/social_pressure.html (318 words)

	Health Promoting Habits
		For many people, social pressure is the most difficult of these three formidable obstacles to healthful living.
		She may be labeled as a "nut" and will be socially punished as long as she continues to dress in an "unacceptable" way-and probably for some time afterwards, as well.
		These small groups needed social harmony to stay together, survive, and thrive, so internal group conflict was (and is) viewed as a serious problem.
	www.healthpromoting.com /Articles/articles/habit.htm (927 words)

	Peer Pressure Information on Healthline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This peer pressure can influence how children dress, what kind of music they listen to, and what types of behavior they engage in, including risky behaviors such as using drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol, and engaging in sex.
		Some kids give in to peer pressure because they want to be liked, to fit in, or because they worry that other kids may make fun of them if they do not go along with the group.
		Experiments have shown how peer pressure can influence children to change their minds from what they know for sure is acceptable behavior to unacceptable behavior just because everyone else in their peer group is doing it.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/peer-pressure (894 words)

	Our Health, Our Futures - Pressures - Social Pressure and Teens
		Social Pressures are the combined pressures that are around you during everyday life such as Peer Pressure, Academic Pressures and Socioeconomic Pressure.
		You may think that you have complete control over these pressures but when a situation arise your ideas may not be as clear as they are at another time.
		We all have an idea what that is. But for those who don't I will explain it, Peer Pressure is when you are encouraged by friends and people your own age to do something that you do not feel completely comfortable with.
	www.smith.edu /ourhealthourfutures/socialpress.html (354 words)

	Scottish Health Survey 1995: Volume 1: Chapter 6: page 1
		In this report, the ‘detection rate’ for high blood pressure was estimated as the proportion of those with survey-defined high blood pressure who also reported a history of hypertension.
		Some of these differences may be due to social class differentials in known CVD risk factors such as blood pressure which, in turn, may be attributed to social class differentials in obesity.
		Social class is defined as the occupation of the chief income earner within the informant’s household (see the Glossary - Appendix E in the Technical Report - for details).
	www.show.scot.nhs.uk /SEHD/publications/sh5/sh56-01.htm (4810 words)

	BioMed Central \| Full text \| Trends in provision of photodynamic therapy and clinician attitudes: a tracker survey of a ...
		Six options for the NNTs were presented, four based upon the point estimate of effect and upper and lower limits of the 95% confidence intervals reported in the Cochrane Review [7], and two further categories of 1 in 50 and 1 in 100 for comparative purposes.
		Mean perceived social pressure for the treatment of patients with predominantly (more than 50%) classic sub-foveal CNV using photodynamic therapy where possible scores range from 1 (strongly approve) to 7 (strongly disapprove).
		The mean scores for perceived social pressure ranged from 2.86 for local colleagues to 3.82 for NICE, where lower scores represent greater levels of perceived approval (Table 2).
	www.biomedcentral.com /1472-6963/5/34 (2616 words)

	Guinea
		There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion; however, the Government reportedly favors Muslims over non-Muslims.
		Relations between the various religions are generally amicable; however, in some areas, strong social pressure discourages non-Muslims from practicing their religion openly, and the Government tends to defer to local Muslim sensibilities.
		Relations between the various religions are generally amicable; however, in some parts of the country, Islam's dominance is such that there is strong social pressure that discourages non-Muslims from practicing their religion openly.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/5665.htm (1091 words)

	"For their efforts to create economic and social development from below" \| MetaFilter
		But the single biggest factor to which the 98% repayment success rate is attributed is the social pressure the members of the group exert on one another; often they are relatives or have been neighbours for generations.
		In 'traditional' societies social mobility is low and so village hierarchies and relationships are the glue of the culture.
		Hence the social pressure to be incredibly careful and to repay on time.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/55495 (1626 words)

	Validity: Challenges - Friendship, Intimacy, Fitting In and Peer / Social Pressure-CAMH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Pressure from peers to fit in and rejection by peers can be particularly stressful for young women who feel different from the majority of their peers, whether that be due to language, racial, economic or other differences.
		Young women are socialized to take on characteristics associated with femininity, such as selflessness and passivity, and to believe in the overriding importance of maintaining intimate and social relationships.
		Developing a trusting relationship with the young woman is essential to providing the opportunity for her to talk about the impact of peer relationships in her life.
	www.camh.net /Care_Treatment/Resources_for_Professionals/Validity/validity_friends_peers.html (1772 words)

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