When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Effectiveness - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effectiveness

    However, neither "effectiveness", nor "effectively", inform about the direction (positive or negative) or gives a comparison to a standard of the given effect. Efficacy, on the other hand, is the extent to which a desired effect is achieved; the ability to produce a desired amount of the desired effect, or the success in achieving a given goal.

  3. Affect control theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affect_control_theory

    Deflections are the distances in the EPA space between transient and fundamental affective meanings. For example, a mother complimented by a stranger feels that the unknown individual is much nicer than a stranger is supposed to be, and a bit too potent and active as well – thus there is a moderate distance between the impression created and the mother's sentiment about strangers.

  4. Social impact theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_impact_theory

    Asch's study on conformity among college students challenged the psychosocial law by demonstrating that the presence of one or two sources of social influence had minimal effect. In contrast, a subsequent study by Gerard, Wilhelmy, and Conolley examined conformity in high school students, who were considered less resistant to conformity than ...

  5. Social development theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_development_theory

    Social development theory attempts to explain qualitative changes in the structure and framework of society, that help the society to better realize aims and objectives.. Development can be defined in a manner applicable to all societies at all historical periods as an upward ascending movement featuring greater levels of energy, efficiency, quality, productivity, complexity, comprehension ...

  6. Social multiplier effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Multiplier_Effect

    The social multiplier effect is a term used in economics, economic geography, sociology, public health and other academic disciplines to describe certain social externalities. It is based on the principle that high levels of one attribute amongst one's peers can have spillover effects on an individual.

  7. List of effects - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_effects

    Thermal Hall effect (condensed matter) (Hall effect) (superconductivity) Third-person effect (media studies) Thorpe–Ingold effect (chemical kinetics) (organic chemistry) Threshold effect (particle physics) (physics) (renormalization group) Tinkerbell effect (sociology) Tocqueville effect (sociology)

  8. Social influence - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_influence

    There are three processes of attitude change as defined by Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman in a 1958 paper published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution. [1] The purpose of defining these processes was to help determine the effects of social influence: for example, to separate public conformity (behavior) from private acceptance (personal belief).

  9. Evaluation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation

    In common usage, evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards.It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative to assess any aim, realizable concept/proposal, or any alternative, to help in decision-making; or to generate the degree of ...