The self-empowerment stories of non-smoker youth from Canada reinforce a changing social meaning of smoking with peers from one where youth accepted and participated in the smoking behaviors of their peers and saw smoking as a means to achieve social acceptance, to an environment where youth's perceptions of personal health override and are more highly valued than "fitting in".
Washington's reaction also reinforced the changing role of Egypt in the region.
However, the tools for reinforcing or changing culture, such as education and popular media, are costly and subject to control by many competing interests.
Leo Doyle, an economist at Dresdner Kleinwort, says the rise in the euro both anticipates and reinforces a changing mix to spending, much as the pound's sharp rise did in the mid-1990s.
The more I watched it, the more it reinforced that changing out bodies for someone--whether it is to shrink or expand ourselves--does us a disservice.
While the social influence approach entails several components [see [ 51]], two components have received most attention in the review literature: reinforcing or changing social norms (e.g., correcting overestimations of peer smoking) and training in recognizing and resisting peer, media and other influences (e.g., learning to negotiate safer sex).
But the combination of hacking the culture and reinforcing it by changing the incentives can make it happen.
Future work should focus on improving data collection for impact assessment, encouraging third-party appraisal, and possibly reinforcing evaluations by changing funding requirements where relevant.
Strategies to support a large-scale implementation of telemonitoring for chronic care patients in primary care should focus on healthcare professionals' perceptions of being supported by their organisation and reinforced in their changing practices.
This may be reinforced by the changing perception of the risk-benefit balance by society, where fewer individuals have direct experience with vaccine-preventable diseases, furthering the intuitive response by some parents to focus more on vaccine safety and concerns about harming their child [ 33].
