Second, we argue that the peer pressure effect is stronger if team members have stronger social ties, and thus we expect the effort-maximizing team size to be larger in teams with stronger social ties. Using a data set from 214 German start-up teams, we find that our hypotheses are ...
3Peer Pressure Peers can have a great influence on the way that you behave. If you are surrounded by positive people, you will have more opportunities to do healthy activities, make good decisions and see the bright side of things. On the other hand, toxic friends can be a bad influence ...
As you grow older you’ll be faced with some challenging decisions—like whether to cut class or try cigarettes. Making decisions on your own is hard enough but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. People who are your age like...
different—commonly used—versions of these tasks, allowing participants to accumulate their payoffs across four (Study 1–2) or ten trials (Study 3), randomly choosing one payoff from four (Study 4–5) or ten trials (Study 7), or using a one-shot task (Study 4-6). In this way, ...
looking for a dim-witted traveler to consume, and instead, found a painting of a woman with a serpent’s body hanging in one of the inns. The creature was enveloped in orange flames, but my gaze settled on her face, how serene it looked. She was beautiful, in that way all things ar...
The main challenge is the way society holds or looks at women, it is rare that society respects women and gives them higher positions, even leadership positions are given to men. So because of that, we have seen where most of the people in leadership positions are men and it has an effe...
“Uhm, oh, I would, I inevitably I would get in trouble … In one way or another.” (Rachel, female aged 46 years old) Participants narrated instances where they accepted suggestions from friends and would execute suggestions without conscious thought or a sense of a mental ‘filter’. The...
The expression, "everybody's doing it," is very much at the center of the concept of peer pressure. It is a social influence applied on an individual in order to get that person to act or believe in a(n) (7)___ way as a larger group. This influence can b...
“advanced” societies have the natural license to take over the lands of others and impose their way of life on them. Darwin himself is complicit in this misunderstanding, since his own social conclusions (as opposed to his natural science investigations) included the unsupported statement that“...