Manipulation Flashcards

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Descriptive vs. injunctive norms

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Descriptive = percieved behavioural prevelance

Injunctive = commonly (dis)approved behavioural conduct

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Focus theory of normative conduct

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Norms do not influence behaviours in the same ways at all times (context dependent)

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Behavioural economics

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Applies psychology to economic models of decision making:

  • Cognitive model (system 2)
  • Context model (system 1)
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MINDSPACE framework of behaviour change

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  • Messenger
  • Incentives
  • Norms
  • Default
  • Salience
  • Priming
  • Affect
  • Commitment
  • Ego
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Personality & Health

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Big five:
- extraversion
- agreeableness
- neuroticism
- conscientiousness
- openness to experience

Conscientiousness (positive) and openness (negative) are predictive of health

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Nudges

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Choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without
forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.
- Perserves autonomy
- Reduces error and bias

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Types of Nudges

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  • Overt nudge: more open, perceived as more authentic
  • Covert nudge: opposite
  • Transparent nudge: individual understands the meaning of the nudge
  • Non-transparent nudge: less likely to recognize the meaning
  • Pro-self nudge: e.g. health
  • Pro-social: e.g. recycling
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Nudges & Liberal Paternalism

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Liberal: autonomy/freedom of choice

Paternalism: people’s choices are guided for the benefit of society

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Snack position & food choices

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More availability & variety of healthy food choices meant more consumption of these

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Poverty & health

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Social capital impacts social exclusion, including reduced access to various health facilities.

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Social Networks Typologies

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  • Network of solidarity
  • Socially EXcluded network
  • Heterogenous network
  • HOmogenous network
  • Traditional network

Solidary SEX is HHot

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Stress-exposure disease framework

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Differentiates community and individual levels of stress and vulnerability. Also explains why ethnicity is correlated with health-risks (based on location segregation).
Includes:
- Structural factors (societal infrastructure)
- Community stressors (physical & psychosocial)
- Individual stress (situation appraisals & baseline health)

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Autonomy and social inclusion

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Feeling socially included (residents of drug/alcohol rehabilitation center) increased personal autonomy and self-efficacy

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Area-based SES and health

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Measured STI’s, tuberculosis, and violence. Areas with economic deprivation and high crowding had higher rates of STI’s and TB

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Socioeconomic inequalities in Europe

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Lower SES/education corresponded to higher death rates and lower self-assessment of healthcare. Need better education and income distribution might

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Social belonging intervention

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Increased academic performance (GPA), sense of belonging, happiness, and (unconscious) self-efficacy

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Belonging uncertainty and academia

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Two studies found that ethnic minorities globalized implications of social exclusion into their fitness in the academic environment

18
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Socioeconomic status and childhood obesity

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SES groups with greatest access to energy-rich diets are at increased risk of obesity (differs between developing and industrialized countries).

Causation =/= causation: obesity could also influence SES.

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M-E-B Health of Children

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  • Mental
  • Emotional
  • Behavioural

The main factor is family poverty - poverty reduction interventions have therefore been able to improve these (by e.g. reducing antisocial behaviour)

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Inoculation theory

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It is a psychosocial/communication theory that expresses how an attitude/opinion can become resistant through the exposure of weak counterarguments (pre-exposure). Important factors:

Threat, Delay, Refutaional Preemption, Involvement.
The Dog Remained Persistently Idiotic

21
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Eye contact and resistance

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Persistent eye contact increases resistance to persuasion of a disagreeing other

22
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ACE resistance strategies

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  • Avoidance (physical, mechanical, and cognitive)
  • Contesting (counter-arguing, source derogation)
  • Empowering (attitude bolstering, social validation, and self-assertion)
23
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Resistance-neutralizing persuasion tactics (ACE)

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Alpha strategies = increase approach towards object
Omega strategies = reducing resistance to persuasion

  • A: forced exposure, branded content, viral marketing
  • C: two-sided ad, cognitive depletion, and distraction
  • E: freedom (persmission) and self-affirmation
24
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Strategies to resist attitude change

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  1. Counterarguing
  2. Attitude Bolstering
  3. Message Distortion
  4. Social validation
  5. Source Degradation
  6. Negative Affect
  7. Selective Exposure
25
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Motivational Interviewing

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Client-centered therapeutic technique: is based on the assumption that clients have conflicting motivations or ambivalence to change, and it is not the counselor’s function to convince them.

4 principles:
3. Development of discrepancy
2. Rolling with resistance
1. Expression of empathy
4. Support Self-efficacy
DRESS

26
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MI communication techniques

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  1. Confirmation
  2. Open-ended questions
  3. Reflective listening
  4. Summarizing
  5. Initiating change-talk
27
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Self-determination theory

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Assumes people are motivated to fulfill 3 universal needs: competence, autonomy, and relatedness.

28
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SDT & MI

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Competence: clear/neutral structure, self-developed goals, positive feedback, and self-efficacy.

Autonomy: roll with resistance, encourage change talk, explore options, the client makes decisions.

Relatedness: empathy, understanding client’s frame of reference, no judgements.

29
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Mood & self-threatening information

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A positive mood may promote attendance to and systematic processing of self-threatening information.

30
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Self-affirmation and health-behaviour change

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Self-affirmation = bolstering or restoring self-perception. It improved message acceptance, intentions to change, and subsequent behaviour change.

31
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Self-affirmation and reactance

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Self-affirmation prior to receiving self-threatening information reduced reactance and increased subsequent behaviour change in high-risk individuals

32
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Prolonged TV exposure and disordered eating

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Study on Fijian girls found prolonged TV exposure lead to modelling after TV characters. This increased prevalence of high EAT 26 scores self-induced vomitting. TV exposure is therefore one of many sociocultural factors that contribute to disordered eating.

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Social comparison in recovering cancer patients

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Upward vs. downward comparison: interaction effect between type of comparison and social comparison sensitivity on subsequent quality of life.

High SCS: upward = low QoL; downward = high QoL.

Low SCS: upward = high QoL; downward = low QoL.
Generally prefer expert advice

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Social comparison and catastrophizing

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Intervention programs should focus on increasing upward identifications and decreasing upward contrasts and downward identification (catastrophizing)

35
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Social comparison on Facebook

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Found that facebook use was positively associated with SCOF and based on an individual’s self-esteem and impression management, this could negatively influence mental health

36
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Positive vs negative role models

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Promotion and prevention goals had equal but opposite strengths, and participants were more likely to recall a role model that was congruent with their goal type.

37
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Superstars as role models

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Superstars can sometimes be self-enhancing, self-deflating, and sometimes have no effect. The main factor relates to the relevance and perceived attainability of the superstar’s success.

38
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Self-discrepancy theory

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Individuals are motivated to close any discrepancy between ideal/ought and actual self, as these discrepancies can lead to depression/anxiety

39
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Theory of discrete emotion

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Individual emotions are associated with unique adaptive functions and goals, and accompanying degrees of action motivation.

40
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Inspiration or deflation?

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Priming similarities = assimilation (positive self-evaluation); priming differences lead to contrast (negative self-evaluation, but motivated to change)

41
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Matrix of social comparison effects

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Positive, upward = identified (hope)

Positive, downward = contrast (gratitude)

Negative, upward = contrast (envy)

Negative, downward = identified (worry)

42
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Reikert et al., 2011

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N = 37 African-American adolescents and caregiver participated in 5 home visit MIs regarding asthma medication adherence. Increased motivation and QoL, but no sig. dif. of adherence. Limitation of self-report for adherence, future studies should use objective measures for this.