G52GRP Individual Report Cycle Route Planner March 31‚ 2011 gp10-rcb He‚ Jun (jxh10u) other group members Name CS User ID E-Mail psydca@nottingham.ac.uk psydno@nottingham.ac.uk psymq@nottingham.ac.uk Armitage‚ Constance Olive cxa09u O ’Dwyer‚ Niall Qiu‚ Mengtian nxo09u mxq00u Supervisor: Prof. Roland Backhouse (rcb) Personal Contribution Summary The overall goal of the project is to develop a cycle-route planner which particularly meets the needs of the students in the University
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“Social norms are shared expectations about how people should think‚ feel and behave and they are the glue that binds social systems together.” (Schaller and Crandell‚ 2004 cited in Passer‚ M.W. & Smith‚ R.E. 2007: 624). Subconsciously our daily lives are regulated and influenced by social norms. We take these social norms for granted. (Passer/Smith‚ 2007:624) We see these customs as “normal” but as Michel Foucault illustrates in “Discipline and Punish‚ the Birth of the Prison”‚ these norms and patterns
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Diversity and Cultural Norms of Apple October 7‚ 2010 Diversity and Cultural of Apple As our society continues to evolve‚ technology has created an outbreak of shortcuts for humans to make use of each day. As our ancestors has left us with such creations as electricity‚ the telephone‚ transportation and much more‚ geniuses of today’s world has taken society to another level. The technology that we use today allows us to do so much although we are
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Relevance of Motivation theories and its implications on Individual and Group Behaviour By Gautham Ashwath Lakshmi Contents Introduction 3 Scope of Study 3 Literature Review 3 2.1 The concept of motivation 4 2.2 Definition of Motivation. 4 2.3 Significance of Motivati 4 2.4 Motivation Process. 5 2.5 Theories of Motivation. 5 2.5.3 Abraham H Maslow Need Hierarchy or Deficient theory of Motivation. 6 2.5.4 J.S Adams Equity Theory 9
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no significant difference in the two different types of twins. There were increases in empathy as age increased consistently with all of those that showed empathetic behaviors from the earliest age group (Knafo et al.‚ 2008). Those in the younger age groups also showed more empathy toward the examiner and those in the older age groups such as 20 months‚ showed more empathy toward their mothers (Knafo et al.‚ 2008). The testing results show a significant interaction between the age and distress victim
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a) If monogamy is the norm for most adults in intimate partnerships‚ then why is there so much extramarital infidelity? Are the two related (monogamy and infidelity)? Please explain your answer. The article presented the argument that while we perceive monogamy as the norm‚ there is as many as 83% of populations around our world that accept polygamy as their way of living. The article also makes the argument that one of the reasons that monogamy is so established as the norm is because of its economic
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How real and viable are these differences in organizations? Personally I like to believe they are very real and that it is just the logical way people in our society today should operate. in other words people‚ organizations‚ or in general society should learn to adjust with the times. Such things as gender‚ race‚ and sexuality have definitely brought influence to multiple organizations and to our society today. We are in a day and age where social issues such as gay marriage are slowly working
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de-individuation explain group behaviour? Group behaviour is inevitably a challenging element of social psychology to be explained. Although many theories and ideas exist surrounding group behaviour‚ the focus of this particular essay will be to explain the behaviour of groups through the concept of de-individuation. According to Diener in ‘The Psychology of Group influence’ (edited by Paul B Paulus) “A deindividuated person is prevented by situational factors in a group from becoming self aware
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belonging to a group‚ it creates a feeling of general well-being in individual. Students cluster together inside the campus this informal group is regarded as “peer groups”. Peer influence on behavior gradually becomes more dominant. Harris (1998‚ 2002) and Rowe (1994) maintained that peer groups have an even stronger influence than that of parents‚ although that extreme position has been refuted by other researchers (Berk‚ 2005). According to Castrogiovanni (2002)‚ a peer group is defined as a
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factors. Employee attitude about product‚ about work‚ about manager and about the company will pretty well determine the quality of the work. Most attitudes are formed as person grows up. Childhood experiences‚ Teachers‚ friends ‚ parents‚ etc. all influence people’s attitude. Once an attitude is formed‚ it’s pretty much the way a person will think about any subject. People vote‚ select a spouse‚ pick an institute and raise children based on their attitude. Attitudes are affected by repetitive messages
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