Asking Attitude, Intention and Prediction Questions as a Social Influence Technique: A Meta-Analysis of the Question-Behavior Effect

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommy van Steen ◽  
Adam N. Joinson ◽  
Janet Carruthers
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Meta Analysis

scholarly journals The ecological roots of human susceptibility to social influence: a pre-registered study investigating the impact of early-life adversity

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 180454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre O. Jacquet ◽  
Lou Safra ◽  
Valentin Wyart ◽  
Nicolas Baumard ◽  
Coralie Chevallier
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Childhood Adversity ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Initial Finding ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
Evaluation Task ◽  
The Impact

There is considerable variability in the degree to which individuals rely on their peers to make decisions. Although theoretical models predict that environmental risks shift the cost–benefit trade-off associated with social information use, this idea has received little empirical support. Here we aim to test the effect of childhood environmental adversity on humans' susceptibility to follow others’ opinion in the context of a standard face evaluation task. Results collected in a pilot study involving 121 adult participants tested online showed that susceptibility to social influence and childhood environmental adversity are positively associated. Computational analyses further confirmed that this effect is not explained by the fact that participants exposed to early adversity produce noisier decisions overall but that they are indeed more likely to follow the group's opinion. To test the robustness of these findings, a pre-registered direct replication using an optimal sample size was run. The results obtained from 262 participants in the pre-registered study did not reveal a significant association between childhood adversity and task performance but the meta-analysis ran on both the pilot and the pre-registered study replicated the initial finding. This work provides experimental evidence for an association between individuals' past ecology and their susceptibility to social influence.

Social Influence and Exercise: A Meta-Analysis

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert V. Carron ◽  
Heather A. Hausenblas ◽  
Diane Mack
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Adherence Behavior ◽  
Exercise Behaviors ◽  
Compliance Behavior ◽  
Class Leaders ◽  
Important Others ◽  
Task Cohesion ◽  
The Impact

Using meta-analysis, the impact of a number of manifestations of social influence (important others, family, class leaders, coexercisers, social cohesion, and task cohesion) on exercise behaviors (adherence and compliance), cognitions (intentions and efficacy), and affect (satisfaction and attitude) was examined. The results showed that social influence generally has a small to moderate positive effect (i.e., effect size [ES] from .20 to .50). However, four moderate to large effect sizes (i.e., ES from .50 to .80) were found: family support and attitudes about exercise, task cohesion and adherence behavior, important others and attitudes about exercise, and family support and compliance behavior.

Avatars Versus Agents: A Meta-Analysis Quantifying the Effect of Agency on Social Influence

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 401-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Fox ◽  
Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn ◽  
Joris H. Janssen ◽  
Leo Yeykelis ◽  
Kathryn Y. Segovia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Meta Analysis

scholarly journals Peer influence in adolescent drinking behaviour: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis of stochastic actor-based modeling studies

BMJ Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. e028709 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Ivaniushina ◽  
Vera Titkova ◽  
Daniel Alexandrov
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Drinking Behaviour ◽  
Social Selection ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Adolescent Drinking

IntroductionAlcohol consumption is a considerable public health problem that is especially harmful to young people. To develop effective prevention programmes targeted at adolescents, it is important to understand the social mechanisms triggering alcohol consumption. Among such mechanisms, peer influence plays an important role. The effects of peer influence are very difficult to evaluate because of the entanglement with social selection, that is, a tendency of people to befriend others with similar behaviour. The recently developed stochastic actor-oriented models (SAOM) approach is designed to disentangle social influence from social selection. The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies employing SAOM methodology to evaluate the effects of social influence on adolescent drinking behaviour.Methods and analysisIn order to analyse the co-evolution of alcohol consumption and adolescent friendship networks, we will collect articles that use SAOM methodology through systematic electronic searches in Web of Science, Scopus, PubMed, The Cochrane Library (Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials), EBSCOhost (MEDLINE, SocINDEX, Academic Source, ERIC), ProQuest (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global), PsycINFO (PsycNET), Excerpta Medica database (Embase) and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). We will collect the literature from academic journals, dissertations/theses, reports and conference materials. Three reviewers will retrieve and independently assess potentially relevant material in terms of whether they comply with prespecified criteria. Subsequently, we will summarise the results of the studies in a systematic review. If a sufficient number of studies can be found, SAOM quantitative results will be extracted and meta-analysed. The project will go from 1 December 2018 to 1 December 2019.Ethics and disseminationEthical approval will not be required as our work is based on published studies. A list of all the studies included in this work will be available for review. We plan dissemination in a peer-reviewed international scientific journal and through conference presentations. Our review will highlight the peer effect of peers in adolescent drinking behaviour and provide guidance for developing effective prevention and intervention programmes. We expect it to be informative for policy and practice, decision-making as well as for further research in public health and sociology of adolescents.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42019119836.

scholarly journals Does changing social influence engender changes in alcohol intake? A meta-analysis.

2016 ◽  
Vol 84 (10) ◽  
pp. 845-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Prestwich ◽  
Ian Kellar ◽  
Mark Conner ◽  
Rebecca Lawton ◽  
Peter Gardner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Alcohol Intake ◽  
Meta Analysis

Social Influence, Physical Activity, and Social Cognitions Among Adults With Physical Disability: A Meta-Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessie N. Stapleton ◽  
Diane E. Mack ◽  
Kathleen A. Martin Ginis
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Physical Disability ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Physical Activity Behavior ◽  
Social Cognitions ◽  
Activity Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Physical Activity Behavior Change

The aim of this meta-analysis was to examine the magnitude of the relationship between social influence and both PA behavior and PA-related social cognitions among samples of adults with physical disabilities, including those with chronic conditions that can lead to a physical disability. A comprehensive literature search was conducted to identify studies involving adults with physical disability, a measure of social influence, and a measure of PA behavior or PA-related social cognitions. A total of 27 studies with 4,768 participants yielded 47 effect sizes to be included for meta-analysis. Significant, small- to medium-sized relationships were identified between social influence and PA behavior, and social influence and PA-related social cognitions. These relationships suggest that social factors positively associate with physical-activity-related social cognitions and should be targeted when promoting physical activity behavior change among adults with a physical disability.

A meta-analysis of how the culture and technical development level influence citizens’ adoption of m-government

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232110573
Author(s):  
Min Zhang ◽  
Xi-yang Zhao ◽  
Yun-xiao Xue ◽  
Jun Yang ◽  
Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Development Level

With the popularity of mobile Internet technology, mobile government has become the mainstream of current government affairs management, which highlights the growing importance of exploring citizens’ intention to adopt m-government. To find the important driving factors of m-government adoption and understand what roles the cultural and technical development level play in it, this study conducted a meta-analysis to search for important factors in m-government adoption from 42 studies from 17 countries. Based on the socio-technical theory, this study applied a meta-regression to explain the differences in the effects of these factors, from the perspective of culture and technical development level. The results show that perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude, social influence, perceived compatibility and trust all play important roles in m-government adoption. Culture and technical development level play moderating roles on the above relationships except for the perceived ease of use–perceived usefulness path. Our findings also reveal that the joint moderating effect of cultural and technical development level can better explain the impact of environmental factors on m-government adoption and consequently provide suggestions for the future implementation of m-government in different countries with diverse cultures. Points for practitioners This study proposes a research model of m-government adoption. Public managers should focus on citizens’ perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, attitude, social influence, perceived compatibility and trust, so as to improve citizens’ intention to use. The results also confirm that culture and technical development level have a specific moderating effect on m-government adoption, which means that public managers should not only consider service quality, but also note environmental factors. They especially should consider the flexible mobile government development strategies in different countries.

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