Positive deviance (PD) is an approach to behavioral and social change. It is based on the idea that, within a community, some individuals engage in unusual...

Look up deviance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Deviance may refer to: Deviance (sociology), actions or behaviors that violate social norms Deviancy...

mores). Although deviance may have a negative connotation, the violation of social norms is not always a negative action; positive deviation exists in...

Normalization of deviance, according to American sociologist Diane Vaughan, is the process in which deviance from correct or proper behavior or rule becomes...

hydrogen bonding. The entropy of vaporization of water and ethanol shows positive deviance from the rule; this is because the hydrogen bonding in the liquid...

Workplace deviance, in group psychology, may be described as the deliberate (or intentional) desire to cause harm to an organization – more specifically...

His academic research has focused on diffusion of innovations, the positive deviance approach, organizing for social change, the entertainment-education...

(2000), co-authored with Mark Millemann and Linda Gioja, The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems (2010)...

innovations Health belief model Health communication Health psychology Positive deviance PRECEDE–PROCEED model Social cognitive theory Social norms approach...

that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive—meaning a posteriori facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience...