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Margaret Tankard
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 9
Citations - 637
Margaret Tankard is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Domestic violence. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 8 publications receiving 464 citations. Previous affiliations of Margaret Tankard include RAND Corporation.
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Norm Perception as a Vehicle for Social Change
TL;DR: This article describe three sources of information that people use to understand norms: individual behavior, summary information about a group, and institutional signals, and discuss conditions under which influence over perceived norms is likely to be stronger, based on the source of normative information and individuals' relationship to the source.
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The Effect of a Supreme Court Decision Regarding Gay Marriage on Social Norms and Personal Attitudes.
TL;DR: Findings provide the first experimental evidence that an institutional decision can change perceptions of social norms, which have been shown to guide behavior, even when individual opinions are unchanged.
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Economic Policies and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention: Emerging Complexities in the Literature:
Margaret Tankard,Radha Iyengar +1 more
TL;DR: An empirically based theoretical model is described that may link economic empowerment to IPV and that highlights research questions for further testing, including comparison across programs based on size and design, assessment of the returns to economic empowerment of young adults, and more evaluations in high-income countries.
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The effect of a savings intervention on women's intimate partner violence victimization: heterogeneous findings from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia.
TL;DR: Although bundling economic empowerment interventions with support features has been shown to empower poor women, this trial found that a bundled treatment did not on average improve most social and health outcomes of poor women experiencing IPV.
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The Magnitude and Sources of Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the results of a survey in which gun policy experts estimated the likely effects of 15 gun-related policies on 12 societally important outcomes and identify where experts agree and disagree and where disagreements concern facts about the effects of gun policies.