Sökning: "peer influence"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 85 avhandlingar innehållade orden peer influence.
1. Social Influence and Educational Decisions : Studies on Peer Influence in Secondary Education
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines the role of peers when students’ educational decisions are formed. The thesis uses rich administrative data from Sweden, which provides opportunities to follow students over different transitions in their educational career and assess the role of peers in different educational situations. LÄS MER
2. Idea development in online internal crowdsourcing : The role of peer contributions
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on idea development in online internal crowdsourcing. Online crowdsourcing for ideas has seen a substantial uptake in practice and has attracted a leading wave of researchers in the academic field. LÄS MER
3. Peer influence on smoking : causation or correlation?
Sammanfattning : In this thesis, we explore two different approaches to causal inferences. The traditional approach models the theoretical relationship between the outcome variables and their explanatory variables, i.e., the science, at the same time as the systematic differences between treated and control subjects are modeled, i. LÄS MER
4. Cues, Conformity, and Choice Architecture : Empirical Essays on Influence
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three papers summarized as follows. “Can Indifference Make the World Greener?” We test whether the default option can nudge people to save resources in a simple, non-dynamic, decision task with only two alternatives, and where people have been explicitly informed about the recommended course of action. LÄS MER
5. How social influence affects children’s witness reports
Sammanfattning : Eyewitnesses to criminal events often discuss their experiences with each other. This can have serious consequences considering the fact that information received from others can have a detrimental effect on people’s memory reports. LÄS MER