Social attitudes modulate automatic imitation by Leighton, J, Bird, G, Orsini, C, Heyes, C

“…In naturalistic interpersonal settings, mimicry or "automatic imitation" generates liking, affiliation, cooperation and other positive social attitudes. The purpose of this study was to find out whether the relationship between social attitudes and mimicry is bidirectional: Do social attitudes have a direct and specific effect on mimicry? …”

Inter-group contact at school and social attitudes: evidence from Northern Ireland by Hughes, J, Campbell, A, Lolliot, S, Hewstone, M, Gallagher, T

Inter-group contact at school and social attitudes: Evidence from Northern Ireland by Hughes, J, Campbell, A, Lolliot, S, Hewstone, M, Gallagher, T

Indeterminate sovereignty and the rule of law: A descriptive analysis of changes to parliament’s use of language by Williams, M

“…Existing theories focus on what the judges’ want for themselves, or they focus on changes to social attitudes. But a key variable, often omitted in research, is the law itself. …”

Boom-time freaks or heroic industrial pioneers? Clothing entrepreneurs in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Berkshire by Jackson, C

“…It assesses the impact of market forces, locational advantages, product specialization and social attitudes in unleashing and shaping entrepreneurial investment from the expansion of cloth-making in the towns in the fifteenth century to de-industrialization in the seventeenth century.…”

Boom-time freaks or heroic industrial pioneers? Clothing entrepreneurs in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Berkshire by Jackson, C, Jackson, C

“…It assesses the impact of market forces, locational advantages, product specialization and social attitudes in unleashing and shaping entrepreneurial investment from the expansion of cloth-making in the towns in the fifteenth century to de-industrialization in the seventeenth century.…”

Tremors but no youthquake: Measuring changes in the age and turnout gradients at the 2015 and 2017 British general elections by Prosser, C, Fieldhouse, E, Green, J, Mellon, J, Evans, G

“…Using conventional and Bayesian statistical methods, we analyse British Election Study and British Social Attitudes random probability surveys and find no evidence of a shift in the relationship between age and turnout of this scale. …”

Noradrenaline effects on social behaviour, intergroup relations, and moral decisions by Savulescu, J, Cowen, P, Terbeck, S, Chesterman, L

“…This article summarizes psychopharmacological and fMRI research on the role of noradrenaline in higher order social cognition suggesting that indeed noradrenergic mediated affective changes might play key – and probably causal – role in certain social attitudes and moral judgments. Social judgments may also be directly influenced by numerous neurotransmitter manipulations but these effects could be mediated by modulation of basic emotions which appear to play an essential role in the formation of social concepts and moral behavior.…”

Ethnic and cultural diversity in Europe: validating measures of ethnic and cultural background by Schneider, SL, Heath, AF

“…Socio-cultural and ethnic origin can be a powerful predictor of social attitudes and behaviours but, unlike the situation in the classical countries of immigration such as Australia, Canada and the USA, there is no standard measure in Europe for measuring ethnic background. …”

Cognitive and behavioural processes in adolescents with social anxiety disorder by Leigh, E, Percy, R, Clark, D, Creswell, C, Waite, P

“…Participants completed measures of negative social cognitions, social attitudes, safety behaviours, self-focused attention, and social anxiety, anxiety, and depression symptoms.…”

Does media coverage influence public attitudes towards welfare recipients? The impact of the 2011 English riots by Reeves, A, de Vries, R

“…Using the British Social Attitudes survey, we use multivariate difference‐in‐differences regression models to compare attitudes toward welfare recipients among those interviewed before (pre‐intervention: i.e. prior to 6 August) and after (post‐intervention: 10 August–10 September) the riots occurred (N = 3,311). …”

Computational courtship: Understanding the evolution of online dating through large-scale data analysis by Dinh, R, Gildersleve, P, Yasseri, T

“…This work could have broader implications for shifting gender norms and social attitudes, reflected in online courtship rituals. …”

Defending the European court of human rights: Experimental evidence from Britain by Dinas, E, Gonzalez Ocantos, E

“…The effect is stronger when we increase social pressure by providing information about social attitudes towards Denmark and Russia in Britain, where the public overwhelmingly trusts the Danes and distrusts the Russians. …”

Attitudinal and demographic predictors of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine acceptance: development and validation of an evidence-based measurement instrument. by Brown, K, Shanley, R, Cowley, N, van Wijgerden, J, Toff, P, Falconer, M, Ramsay, M, Hudson, M, Green, J, Vincent, C, Kroll, J, Fraser, G, Sevdalis, N

“…Black and minority ethnicity (OR=1.94, 95% CI=1.15-3.30 to OR=4.15, 95% CI=2.40-7.19), positive MMR attitudes (OR=1.63, 95% CI=1.00-2.66 to OR=1.97, 95% CI=1.18-1.31), and positive social attitudes (OR=1.64, 95% CI=1.23-2.40 to OR=1.72, 95% CI=1.13-2.38) independently predicted uptake for both MMR doses. …”