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

How Fair is the Route to the Top:Perceptions of Social Mobility by de Graaf, N, Heath, A, Li, Y

“…Chapter in British Social Attitudes, 27th Report…”

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. …”

Late-in-life motherhood: Ethico-legal perspectives on the postponement of childbearing and access to artificial reproductive technologies by Goold, I

“…Many women postpone childbearing until later in life and face infertility as a result. Social attitudes are often critical of whether these women should receive assisted reproductive technologies. …”

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. …”

Freedom of religion or belief - the quest for religious autonomy by Kiviorg, M

“…It allows the focus to be placed on the role of the State and leaves freedom of religion or belief to be heavily affected by politics and fluctuating social attitudes. In this regard, this thesis looks for the meaning and scope of individual and collective religious autonomy and how it is and ought to be represented in the practice of the European Court of Human Rights. …”

Ministering to a changing world: local church response to societal and cultural change, Slough 1890-1974 by Masom, G

“…Focusing on the young was not simply necessary for replenishing church membership, but a core means of building a church community for all ages. Changing social attitudes towards duty and choice, combined with increasing leisure options, posed a further major challenge. …”

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. …”

Ancestry, blood, and heredity. Attitudes towards biological descent in late medieval Tuscany, c.1250-1400 by Andrés Porras

“…This thesis examines intellectual and social attitudes to biological descent in late medieval Tuscany. …”

Moral emotions as antecedents of political attitudes by Petrescu, D, Dragos C. Petrescu

“…Chapter 4 presents Study 3, which replicated Study 2, and showed dissociations between the effects of disgust on economic and social attitudes. Chapter 5 presents a cross-sectional investigation (Study 4) that tested for associations between the predisposition to experience disgust and both social and economic attitudes. …”

Modelling human-like decision making and social trust using probabilistic programming by Olejnik, M

“…<p>Effective collaborations between humans and machines necessitate the modelling of human cognitive processes and complex social attitudes such as trust, guilt or shame. Robots can take an active role in reducing misuse if they are able to detect human biases, inaccurate beliefs or overtrust, and make accurate predictions of human behaviour.…”