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Social Theory and Social Structure
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The article was published on 1949-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13688 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social change & Social relation.read more
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Development of a theory of implementation and integration: Normalization Process Theory
Carl May,Frances S. Mair,Tracy Finch,Anne MacFarlane,Christopher Dowrick,Shaun Treweek,Tim Rapley,Luciana Ballini,Bie Nio Ong,Anne Rogers,Elizabeth Murray,Glyn Elwyn,Jane Gunn,Victor M. Montori +13 more
TL;DR: Normalization Process Theory explains how new technologies, ways of acting, and ways of working become routinely embedded in everyday practice, and has applications in the study of implementation processes.
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Procrastination and Obedience
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on situations involving repeated decisions with time inconsistent behavior and illustrate several "pathological" modes of individual and group behavior: procrastination in decision making, undue obedience to authority, membership of seemingly normal individuals in deviant cult groups, and escalation of commitment to courses of action that are clearly unwise.
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Publication prejudices: An experimental study of confirmatory bias in the peer review system
TL;DR: In this paper, 75 journal reviewers were asked to referee manuscripts which described identical experimental procedures but which reported positive, negative, mixed, or no results, showing poor interrater agreement and strongly biased against manuscripts which reported results contrary to their theoretical perspective.
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Beyond Rational Choice: The Social Dynamics of How People Seek Help
TL;DR: The Social Organization Strategy (SOS) framework as discussed by the authors is a complementary approach to social action in general and decision making in particular, which shifts the from individual "choice" to socially constructed patterns of decisions, including consultation with others.
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Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again
TL;DR: In this article, an attempt to study the peer-review process directly, in the natural setting of actual journal referee evaluations of submitted manuscripts, was made. But the results showed that only three (8%) of the 38 editors and reviewers detected the resubmissions.