Influence People Research Articles

The social and psychological antecedents of cycling in Brazil

Cycling is widely regarded as a healthy and sustainable transport option in urban environments. However, there is an emergent need to understand how cycling in countries like Brazil, can be encouraged and supported, particularly among different sections of the population. This study investigates social-psychological antecedents of cycling within the Brazilian context using a large-scale dataset to verify the appropriateness of a model based on the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (e-TPB). In-person interviews were conducted with people living in three large Brazilian cities – Brasília (n=1107), Florianópolis (n=1084), and Porto Alegre (n=1105) using a questionnaire including nine items from the e-TPB to measure attitudes, social norms, perceived behavioural control, intention, cycling behaviour, and habit. Multigroup analysis verified the model fit and invariance in structural weights by gender. Age and gender were revealed to be the only sociodemographic variables with significant influence on the components’ mean scores, with gender exhibiting the strongest influence. We concluded that the e-TPB allows us to explain cycling behaviour among this sample of the Brazilian population and that it is particularly sensitive to (a) other people's influence (b) personal habit (c) perceived behavioural control (d) belief in the ability to change one’s behaviour. Women were less likely to cycle and were less likely to be influenced by social-psychological components that could encourage this type of activity. Thus, we conclude that understanding the social and cognitive determinants of cycling can help to design more targeted policies for different sections of society.

Exploring adults' passive experience of playing children in cities: Case study of an urban public space with open and integrated settings in Copenhagen, Denmark

While many public life studies focus on the influence of the physical environment, people's influence on other people's public life is less studied, of which children's influence is rarely studied. People's passive aspect of public life is a major part of their public life in urban public spaces. Thus, this article explores the influence of playing children on adults' passive experience.To unfold the relevant knowledge on how people's public life takes place, this article considers multiple influencing factors and integrated multisensory stimuli to reasonably explain adults' varying degrees of sensory attention to playing children at the micro-scale of an urban public space with open and integrated settings in Copenhagen, Denmark.An on-site questionnaire-based survey (N = 584) was conducted to answer the research question: What factors influence adults' degree of sensory attention to playing children in an urban public space that encompasses different zones with diverse spatial characteristics? Statistical analysis and descriptive study of the collected data resulted in identifying four influencing factors: spatial characteristics, public life pattern, public life state, and public life usage.This article provides insights for urban designers, planners, and city authorities, preparing knowledge for urban design practices with a comprehensive approach.

Analysis of the Factors Affecting Bank Selection Decisions in Mogadishu, Somalia

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analysis of the factors affecting bank selection decisions in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 
 Theoretical framework: This study is to address several limitations in this study by providing extensive evidence on the determinants of the bank selection choice in Mogadishu, Somalia, and better inform bank executives and authorities about the types of services customers find most appropriate for their bank needs.
 
 Design/methodology/approach: The methodology for the study is based on data collected from one hundred twenty customers who were selected as a sample size from the population of bank customers. Since it is impossible to find out the exact number of the entire customers for time-consuming and expensive reasons, the researcher chose the sample.
 
 Findings: The results showed they have a positive influence on the bank selection decision of consumers living in Mogadishu – Somalia. Elements used under the investigation include the Provision of bank services, the convenience of the bank, the reputation and image of the bank, the financial gain of the bank, people's influence, and information availability of the bank.
 
 Research, Practical & Social implications: The results will indicate that customers' primary motivation for selecting a bank is the security of their funds, and better enlighten bank executives and authorities about the types of services that customers find most suitable for their bank requirements.
 
 Originality/value: Original Research article

Ethics and Impacts of Entertainment Media

The entertainment media plays a significant role in people’s lives and has ethical implications as well. However,audience is primarily unaware of the effects of content consumption, particularly when it comes to entertainmentmedia. On the other hand, Ethics is also being neglected while influenced by media content. The researcherconsiders the ethics and impact of entertainment media as an essential part of the study, with cultivation theoryserving as the theoretical framework. The purpose of the study was to investigate the moral implications and effectsof entertainment media (such as dramas, films, talk shows, reality shows, and others) on young people. Determininghow young people's attitudes, influences, behaviours, and language have changed as a result of watchingentertainment media. Data was gathered using the survey method from university students. According to the study'sfindings, media content, which is typically thought to have a positive influence, can have negative consequences onpeople, especially young people. As 46% of young people feel that entertainment media content shape theirattitudes, behaviours, ethical values, and language, media have both positive and negative effects on these traits.Nearly 55% of youth believed that media content influences them both consciously and unconsciously. As a resultof entertainment media, the study discovered that many respondents use slang. Intriguingly, the study found that48% of youngsters believe that negative behaviours including lying, cheating, westernization, and interpersonalaggression have been normalized by entertainment media. While 49% of people claim to have sexual desires afterviewing erotic

Social interoception: Perceiving events during cardiac afferent activity makes people more suggestible to other people's influence

Our judgements are often influenced by other people's views and opinions. Interoception also influences decision making, but little is known about its role in social influence and particularly, the extent to which other people may influence our decisions. Across two experiments, using different forms of social influence, participants judged the trustworthiness of faces presented either during the systolic phase of the cardiac cycle, when baroreceptors convey information from the heart to the brain, or during diastolic phase, when baroreceptors are quiescent. We quantified the extent to which participants changed their minds (as an index of social influence) following the social feedback, in order to compare two competing hypotheses. According to the Arousal-Confidence Hypothesis, cardiac signals create a context of heightened bodily arousal that increases confidence in perceptual judgements. People should, therefore, be less subject to social influence during systole. By contrast, according to the Uncertainty-Conformity Hypothesis, cardiac signals increase neural noise and sensory attenuation, such that people should display greater effects of social influence during systole, as they then underweight private interoceptive signals in favour of the external social information. Across two studies that used different kind of social interactions, we found that participants changed their minds more when faces were presented at systole. Our results, therefore, support the Uncertainly-Conformity hypothesis and highlight how cardiac afferent signals contribute to shape our social decision-making in different types of social interactions.

Social Interoception: Perceiving Events During Cardiac Afferent Activity Makes People More Suggestible to Other People's Influence

Social Interoception: Perceiving Events During Cardiac Afferent Activity Makes People More Suggestible to Other People's Influence

Strategi Pengembangan Wisata Tebat Rasau Di Desa Lintang Kabupaten Belitung Timur

Tourism is one of the important sectors whose value and movement is to drive the people's economy and influence other sectors. However, in developing tourism it can have an impact on natural damage, so it needs to be defeated by the uniqueness and condition of the existing area. To develop the tourism that is owned, it needs to be done gradually and continuously so that this sector can move the entire community so that community participation can be realized in real terms. Therefore, this study aims to measure community wisdom in developing the tourism potential of Tebat Rasau in Lintang Village, East Belitung Regency. The research used a qualitative descriptive method. Data collection through interviews and field. The results showed that the community was able to encourage tourism development as evidenced by the development and infrastructure, the object of marketing tourism objects through social media and participation in training activities. The research results can be used as a driving force for tourism development in Lintang Village, East Belitung Regency.

Factors influencing elders’ intention to use a housing community: a virtual reality approach extending the theory of planned behaviour

The increased population size of the elderly calls upon researchers to address the consequences of the unparalleled demographic change and construct reassuring communities that would be accepted by the elderly. This research suggests and validates a new research model that investigates theoretical variables positively associated with the elders' behavioural intentions to use a proposed community by extending the theory of planned behaviour. 72 participants in the United Arab Emirates experienced a virtual reality tour of the proposed community and statistical tests were conducted on the data collected from the post-test questionnaires. Among a number of significant results, it was inferred that elders find the proposed community functional regardless of other people's influences and that the overall community functionality is positively correlated with the elder's intention to use the community (F(1,70)=122.527, p<.000) with an R2 of 0.636. Also, mobility in elderly houses is highly associated with elders' attitudes which also was strongly correlated with elders' intention to use the proposed communities (F(1,70)=1175.484, p<.000 with an R2 of 0.944). To increase the rate of elders' adoption of a residential facility, this research, among the first empirical research studies integrating the theory of planned behaviour and Virtual Reality models, provides the needed insights to construction managers and engineers.

Rewriting the future: Young people's stories of educational engagement

Young people's educational trajectories are always provisional. This article considers young people's perspectives about enablers and barriers to continued education, and questions models of aspiration-raising that prioritise particular trajectories and are critical when young people cannot engage. Participatory methods enabled 30 young people aged 12-24 from disadvantaged areas in northwest England to imagine steps towards future possible selves. Through collaborative story-making with researchers, they established that inter-generational relationships are important to these journeys, especially support from adults who believed in their capabilities and encouraged young people's influence over decisions for change.

ÇEVRE SORUNLARI, NEDENLERİ VE ÇÖZÜM ÖNERİLERİ: YOZGAT ÖRNEĞİ

Bilim ve teknoloji alanında yaşanan gelişmelere bağlı ortaya çıkan ihtiyaçlar ve değişen tüketim alışkanlıkları insanların doğal çevre üzerindeki etkilerinin artmasına neden olmuştur. İnsanın çevreye olan müdahalesi arttıkça doğal dengenin bozulması sonucunda oluşan çevre sorunları tüm canlıların yaşamını olumsuz etkilemektedir. Bu araştırmada Yozgat’ta yaşayan insanların çevre sorunlarına ilişkin görüşlerinin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma nitel bir çalışma olup görüşme yöntemi ile gerçekleştirilmiş betimsel bir çalışmadır. Araştırmada elde edilen veriler içerik analizi yöntemiyle analiz edilmiştir. Araştırmanın örneklemini Yozgat’ta yaşayan 170 kişi oluşturmaktadır. Katılımcıların görüşlerine göre Yozgat’ta yaşanan en önemli çevre sorunları çöpler, atıklar, hava, su ve gürültü kirliliği, kentleşme ve ormanların tahrip edilmesidir. Bu sorunların sebepleri eğitim eksikliği, bilinçsizlik ve duyarsızlık olarak ifade edilmiştir. Katılımcılar, çevre sorunlarının çözümü için çevre eğitimi etkinliklerinin arttırılmasını, denetim ve ceza uygulanmasını önermişlerdir. Katılımcıların gösterdikleri çevre dostu davranışların çevreye çöp atmamak, atanları uyarmak, geri dönüşüme özen göstermek ve düzenlenen çevre etkinlilerine katılmak olduğu belirlenmiştir.

Using Education Diplomacy to Create Networks of Business Champions for Early Childhood: Models from Australia, Romania, Uganda, and the United States

Education Diplomacy engages the business sector with educators, policymakers, and government agencies by building consensus on policy, practice, and lifelong outcomes and taps into business people's natural skills and influence. The Education Diplomat is an important role for all stakeholders to make a lasting difference in the lives of children, and thereby society at large.

Small property rights housing in major Chinese cities: Its role and the uniqueness of dwellers

As China has rapidly urbanized, housing prices in many cities have skyrocketed, reducing housing affordability and leading to the rise of an informal housing sector. This paper provides the first comprehensive demand-side analysis of the small property rights housing (SPRH) sector, using data from the 2015 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS) across twenty-seven major cities. This study shows that SPRH, despite its ambiguous legal status, has an average unit size larger than those in the formal sector. People who buy SPRH for basic needs (consumption demand) are more likely to be the locals with a middle range (“sandwiched”) financial and social status. They often have a large family size and thus have a strong demand for living space, and at the same time, they are willing (and able) to compromise on the benefits associated with legal property rights for a lower price. In this sense, the existence of SPRH supplements the short supply of affordable housing provided by local governments. Wealthy locals with high-risk preference are more likely to buy SPRH for investment. Such investment threatens social justice, and those people's strong influence on public policies is a potential reason for the continuing prevalence of SPRH. Findings in this paper contribute to a more solid understanding of the mechanisms and social structures behind this informal housing sector in Chinese cities.

What does client ‘engagement’ mean in aged care? An analysis of practice

ABSTRACTClient engagement is an important part of contemporary aged care. However, the extent to which decisions are delegated to the older person, and the scope of issues about which decision making occurs, vary. The types of engagement that are offered to, and taken up by, aged-care clients have implications for the extent of power and influence older people hold. This paper reports on a qualitative study conducted in a large Australian service provider. It identifies the forms that client engagement takes in the aged-care context, the roles for staff and older people that are enacted through these activities, and the implications these have for power relationships and older people's influence. An inverse relationship was seen between the depth and scope of client influence, but a desire to address this suggested potential spaces for greater empowerment. A relationship was evident between the retention of control by staff and the perceived effectiveness of existing engagement strategies, highlighting the limitations of traditional power dynamics in engagement practice. An expanded model of engagement in aged care is proposed that recognises the foundational role of connection building as a facilitator of greater empowerment for older people. Implications for theory regarding engagement in aged care, and the practice of engagement in aged-care organisations, are discussed.

Social recommendation based on trust and influence in SNS environments

The development of social media provides convenience to people's lives. People's social relationship and influence on each other is an important factor in a variety of social activities. It is obviously important for the recommendation, while social relationship and user influence are rarely taken into account in traditional recommendation algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new approach to personalized recommendation on social media in order to make use of such a kind of information, and introduce and define a set of new measures to evaluate trust and influence based on users' social relationship and rating information. We develop a social recommendation algorithm based on modeling of users' social trust and influence combined with collaborative filtering. The optimal linear relation between them will be reached by the proposed method, because the importance of users' social trust and influence varies with the data. Our experimental results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms traditional recommendation in terms of recommendation accuracy and stability.

Mnemonic multiples: the case of the columbia panel studies.

This article uses the Bureau of Applied Social Research's mid-century book-length panel studies-The People's Choice (1944), Voting (1954), and Personal Influence (1955)-to identify and illustrate a neglected phenomenon in the remembered history of social science: mnemonic multiples. The article describes the way that the Bureau books, originally published into a post-World War II interdisciplinary social science milieu, have since come to be remembered along distinct disciplinary tracks by sociologists, political scientists, and communication researchers. A contextual analysis of references to the Bureau studies in the flagship journals of the three disciplines, from 1960 through 2011, provides tentative support for the mnemonic multiples concept.

Information Management of Digtal Libirary Based on Data Mining

With the development and maturity of digital libirary, the Internet has become more and more intelligent, humane and social. It began gradually infiltrated into every aspect of people's lives, influence and change people's way of life. digital libirary era as representative products -- information management has been the suddenness of a thunderbolt swept the interaction information user global information managementing platforms began showing explosive growth trend however, and people are facing information explosion but the core concept of wisdom barren embarrassing situation. [1]

STS-inspired design to meet the challenges of modern aging. Welfare technology as a tool to promote user driven innovations or another way to keep older users hostage?

Older technology users and their integration into IT society have been on the research agenda since digitalization took off. Given the attempts to develop user-driven design, it is surprising that the appearance of technologies older people are provided with, or are the target group for, have not progressed. Now another political agenda, coined as “welfare technology”, is being launched in Scandinavia. It is the reminiscent of previous arguments for why demographics, welfare and the need for new business arenas should be prioritized. This paper argues that STS-inspired design can contribute to a paradigm shift that breaks this trend and instead helps to develop proactive technology that meets the needs and demands of today's senior citizens. Two cases illustrate the way the imbalance between technology and older people's influence persists over time. Another three cases with a bearing on design sciences are singled out and discussed: the selection of older subjects; the understanding of the “social” in going from the laboratory to real-life settings; and the “making of meaning” in product development. The conclusions point to the opportunity to bridge the imbalance when introducing welfare technology by introducing STS-inspired reflections on engineering and design.

The Research on the Application of SNS Based on Web Data Mining

With the development and maturity of Web2.0 technology, the Internet has become more and more intelligent, humane and social. It began gradually infiltrated into every aspect of people's lives, influence and change people's way of life. Web2.0 era as representative products -- social network has been the suddenness of a thunderbolt swept the interaction information user global social networking platforms began showing explosive growth trend however, and people are facing information explosion but the core concept of wisdom barren embarrassing situation. [

Managing social&amp;#8211;ecological systems under uncertainty: implementation in the real world

Nuno, A., N. Bunnefeld, and E. Milner-Gulland. 2014. Managing social–ecological systems under uncertainty: implementation in the real world. Ecology and Society 19(2): 52. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06490-190252

Identifying Influential and Susceptible Members of Social Networks

Identifying social influence in networks is critical to understanding how behaviors spread. We present a method that uses in vivo randomized experimentation to identify influence and susceptibility in networks while avoiding the biases inherent in traditional estimates of social contagion. Estimation in a representative sample of 1.3 million Facebook users showed that younger users are more susceptible to influence than older users, men are more influential than women, women influence men more than they influence other women, and married individuals are the least susceptible to influence in the decision to adopt the product offered. Analysis of influence and susceptibility together with network structure revealed that influential individuals are less susceptible to influence than noninfluential individuals and that they cluster in the network while susceptible individuals do not, which suggests that influential people with influential friends may be instrumental in the spread of this product in the network.