Identical suggestions do not impact the group members' decisions when they originate with a computer, thus supporting to the view that information provided by human leaders is uniquely able to establish welfare-enhancing norms.
Instead of constantly enhancing the norm -- forever upping the ante of the "normal" with new technologies -- we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.
Over the past two decades, tremendous progress has been made in raising awareness of human trafficking, enhancing relevant legal norms, and ensuring more robust care for survivors.
These findings also imply a need for non-health interventions that contribute to promote social norms enhancing women's status and autonomy within families and society.
Some common elements exist across these theories, including the importance of personalising information and probability of risks, increasing motivation and readiness for change/action, understanding and influencing peers and social norms, enhancing personal skills and attitudes and ability to take action, and developing enabling environments through supportive policies and service delivery.
Using community platforms in underserved populations, UNICEF helps to improve health-seeking behaviors by addressing harmful traditional beliefs and negative social norms and enhancing social accountability.
Another implication is that enhancing effects on descriptive norms might increase the efficacy of interventions for African American MSM more generally.
25 The safety assessment provided feedback on how the situation is perceived relative to a different norm, thus enhancing the discrepancy between 'normalcy' and their current situation.
The shared knowledge would enhance in establishing norms and protocols for a sustainable multilateral governance in the GBM basin.
Reward distribution can also be enhanced by social norms (Shah, 2006) and culture (Spigel, 2015; Swidler, 1986).
Thus, social agents – especially peers and parents, who are closest to the adolescent – both consciously and unconsciously convey and enhance appearance-related norms through direct and indirect interactions [ 5, 6].
