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The social norms marketing approach (SNMA) assumes that most individuals tend to conform to the perceived norms of the social groups in which they belong, but that in actuality these norms are often misperceived. This approach asserts that in situations concerning high-risk health behaviors (such as excessive drinking on college campuses), designing a social norms [...]
Creating a high quality social norms message can be a more complex process than it seems. Luckily, the National Social Norms Center is here to walk you through everything you need to know! This guide provides a checklist of 9 essential features of a good social norms message. You should use this as a reference [...]
In our final chapter of the Sampling Demonstration Series, Dr. Larry Hembroff explains how we handle the daunting scenario of samples choosing not to respond. Over the years, there has been a decline in response rates. Can we only get accurate data from large samples? What do we do when we have a low response [...]
Welcome to Chapter 3 of the National Social Norms Center’s informational series on sampling for your social norms campaign! In the previous chapter, you learned how to use SPSS to generate four convenience samples for the purpose of seeing how representative they were of what you already knew was true of your population. When you [...]
Welcome to chapter 2 of the National Social Norms Center’s informational series on sampling for your social norms campaign! In this chapter, you’ll learn the skills needed to generate a convenience sample using your survey data within the SPSS data analysis software. Sometimes due to issues such as time restraints, cost, or complexity, we aren’t [...]
All good social norms campaigns come from good data, but how can we be so sure that we have good data? In a new four-part series, Dr. Larry Hembroff gives us the run down of good sampling techniques and how to apply this to the popular data analysis software, SPSS. In this first installment of [...]
