Sökning: "norm acceptance"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden norm acceptance.
1. Norm Acceptance in the International Community : A study of disaster risk reduction and climate-induced migration
Sammanfattning : Different kinds of normative claims and statements of “oughtness” infuse the international political environment. But why do some proposed norms become accepted by the international community while others do not? This thesis investigates this central question using two normatively charged international issues as vehicles for explanation. LÄS MER
2. Norm-Expressivism: Requirements & Possibilities for Moral Emotions : Narrow Moral Emotions and Broad Capacities
Sammanfattning : The contemporary metaethical theory, norm-expressivism, maintains that a moral judgment expresses one’s acceptance of norms governing guilt and anger. The theory’s founder, Allan Gibbard, argues that this understanding of the moral claim is supported through both the realization of weaknesses in other accounts and a naturalistic consideration of the way in which moral judgments function in our moral lives. LÄS MER
3. From health to e-health : understanding citizens' acceptance of online health care
Sammanfattning : In light of the challenges arising from an ageing population and runaway health-care costs, e-health offers tremendous opportunities for public and private health-care providers worldwide to optimize service delivery and enhance the quality of care being provided to patients. Even though the potential of e-health is acknowledged in academia as well as among practitioners, its application has proven to be remarkably difficult. LÄS MER
4. Using social norms in energy conservation interventions
Sammanfattning : When designing interventions to promote pro-environmental behaviors, practitioners may choose between techniques based on for example education, incentives, commitments, or social norms. These intervention techniques may, however, target different kinds of motivation, and therefore differ in their psychological and behavioral implications. LÄS MER
5. Comfortably numb : choose, eat, waste : four experimental essays on consumers’ acceptance of sub-optimal food
Sammanfattning : A vast amount of food is being wasted across the globe and the entire supply chain. There are multiple reasons for this, but when it comes to our part as consumers, the amount of food wasted is mostly due to our unwillingness to accept food that deviates from the norm, which is called sub-optimal food. LÄS MER
