Quote: "Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, politics or being like-minded."
The study of how individuals conform to group norms and are influenced by social pressure, with a focus on political settings.
Social influence: The phenomenon through which people influence the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of others.
Conformity: Adjusting one's behavior or attitudes to match those of a group or a norm.
Compliance: Conforming to social pressure without necessarily agreeing with the request.
Obedience: Following the commands of an authority figure.
Norms: The implicit or explicit rules that govern behavior in a society.
Identity-based motivation: The desire to maintain a positive sense of self by conforming to group norms.
Informational influence: The tendency to conform to the opinions of others because they are believed to be more knowledgeable.
Normative influence: The pressure to conform to social norms in order to be accepted and avoid rejection.
Minority influence: The ability of a small group to change the opinions of a larger group.
Social identity theory: The idea that individuals derive a sense of self based on their membership in social groups.
Self-categorization theory: The idea that individuals categorize themselves and others based on social identity.
Deindividuation: A loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster anonymity.
Social facilitation: The tendency for people to perform better when in the presence of others.
Social loafing: The tendency for people to exert less effort when working in a group.
Group polarization: The tendency for group discussion to increase the extremism of individual group members.
Groupthink: The tendency for a cohesive group to prioritize consensus over critical thinking.
Cognitive dissonance theory: The idea that individuals experience psychological discomfort when their beliefs and behaviors are inconsistent.
Persuasion: The process of changing someone's attitude toward a particular topic.
Attitude strength: The degree to which one's attitude is strong and resistant to change.
In-group bias: The tendency to favor members of one's own group over outsiders.
Out-group derogation: The tendency to view members of other groups as inferior.
Stereotypes: Overgeneralized beliefs about members of a particular group.
Prejudice: Negative attitudes and feelings toward members of a particular group.
Discrimination: Unequal treatment of individuals based on their membership in a particular group.
Intergroup contact theory: The idea that contact between members of different groups can reduce prejudice and improve intergroup relations.
Majority Influence: Where individuals conform to the norms and values of the majority in a social group, leading to a consensus.
Minority Influence: Where a minority group exerts an influence on the majority, leading to changing attitudes and beliefs.
Normative Influence: Where an individual feels the pressure of the group to conform to the group's norms and values to be accepted.
Informational Influence: Where an individual conforms to the group to obtain information about a subject topic or to avoid ridicule and misinterpretations.
Compliance: Where an individual conforms to the request of an authority figure or a person in a superior position.
Obedience: Where individuals obey the commands of an authority figure or obeying the norms of a group.
Social Identity Theory: Where individuals conform to the norms of a particular group to strengthen their social identity.
Deindividuation: Where individuals conform to the behaviour of the larger group by maintaining anonymity.
Conformity Bias: Where individuals make decisions based on the group's decision rather than their own.
Social Norms: Where conformity is driven by the perceived expectations of the group and the consequences of deviating from those norms.
Quote: "Norms are implicit, specific rules, shared by a group of individuals, that guide their interactions with others."
Quote: "because it is often easier to follow the path others have made already, rather than forging a new one."
Quote: "This tendency to conform occurs in small groups and/or in society as a whole and may result from subtle unconscious influences or from direct and overt social pressure."
Quote: "Conformity can occur in the presence of others, or when an individual is alone."
Quote: "The Asch Conformity Experiment demonstrates how much influence conformity has on people."
Quote: "Asch asked 50 male students from Swarthmore College in the US to participate in a 'vision test'. Asch put a naive participant in a room with seven confederates/stooges in a line judgment task."
Quote: "On average, about one third (32%) of the participants who were placed in this situation sided with the clearly incorrect majority on the critical trials. Over the 12 critical trials, about 75% of participants conformed at least once."
Quote: "subjects acknowledged that they did not actually agree with the answers given by others. The majority of them, however, believe that groups are wiser or do not want to appear as mavericks and choose to repeat the same obvious misconception."
Quote: "Changing our behaviors to match the responses of others, which is conformity, can be conscious or not."
Quote: "There are two other main reasons for conformity: informational influence and normative influence."
Quote: "When the advocated norm could be correct, the informational influence is more important than the normative influence."
Quote: "otherwise the normative influence dominates."
Quote: "a pattern of thought characterized by self-deception, forced manufacture of consent, and conformity to group values and ethics, which ignores realistic appraisal of other courses of action."
Quote: "Unwillingness to conform carries the risk of social rejection."
Quote: "Conformity influences the formation and maintenance of social norms, and helps societies function smoothly and predictably via the self-elimination of behaviors seen as contrary to unwritten rules."
Quote: "Conformity was found to impair group performance in a variable environment, but was not found to have a significant effect on performance in a stable environment."
Quote: "According to Herbert Kelman, there are three types of conformity: 1) compliance, 2) identification, 3) internalization."
Quote: "Major factors that influence the degree of conformity include culture, gender, age, size of the group, situational factors, and different stimuli."
Quote: "In some cases, minority influence, a special case of informational influence, can resist the pressure to conform and influence the majority to accept the minority's belief or behaviors."