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Research Paper On Conformity
Do I conform, or in other words do I follow. As a general whole I don't conform, I don't follow. Like I had said, I create my own thoughts and follow
my own path, I don't follow the trends and I don't strive to be someone else. To be a conformist is to be passive and not make a change, but I strive
to make some type of change. I would always prefer to branch out and to be different then to be like everyone else, because what kind of life is that.
To be just like everyone else, where your life is no more than different the person next to you. A life like that means that your life is insignificant and
anyone can replace you, because they will just like you. Their experience will match the ones you will have or had. At that point you are no longer
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Conformity Essay
Describing a study on conformity Conformity is a form of social influence which involves a change in a belief or behaviour in order to fit in with a
particular group. This change is in response to real (involving the physical presence of others) or imagined (involving the pressure of social norms
/ expectations) group pressure. SHERIF Muzafer Sherif (1935) conducted a lab experiment study on conformity in 1935. Sherif conducted this study
by putting participants in a dark room and told them to watch a pinpoint of light and report how far it moved. However psychologists had discovered
that a small, still light in a dark room often appeared to be moving and this was known as the autokinetic effect. The autokinetic effect is an...show more
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The study therefore rejects the dispositional hypothesis. The experiment had to be stopped after just six days instead of the planned 14 days,
mainly because of the pathological reactions of the participants. Five prisoners had to be released even earlier because of extreme emotional
depression. As a result of this is that even though the simulation was finished after only six days instead of the projected fourteen days all of the
remaining prisoners were happy by the news, but most of the guards seemed to be distressed by the early end to the study and this showed that they
had become too involved in their role that they now enjoyed the extreme control and power which they put into effect. Zimbardo referred to this as the
'pathology of power'. In conclusion to his study, he found that people will willingly conform to the social roles that they are expected to play,
especially if the roles are as strongly stereotyped as those of the prison guards. The "prison" environment was an important factor in creating the guards'
violent behaviour (however none of the participants who acted as guards showed cruel behaviour/ mentality before the study). Therefore, this means
that the roles that people play can shape their behaviour and attitudes. ASCH Asch conducted a study to investigate the question of
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Conformity and Obedience Essays
Conformity and Obedience Why do we conform? Two basic sources of influence: normative social influence, the need to be liked, accepted by others
and Informational influence: need to be correct and to behave in accordance with reality. Solomon Asch (1956) devised an experiment to see if
subjects would conform even if they were uncertain that the group norm was incorrect. In his study he asked subjects to take part in an experiment.
They were each asked to match a standard length line with three other lines. He found that one of the situational factors of conformity is the size of
the opposing majority. In a series of studies he varied the number of confederates that gave correct answers from 1 –15. He found that subjects
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Moscovici found that consistency in the minority was important in winning over the majority with respect to the colour of the slides. Not all
decisions are made from a majority influence. For example, the suffragettes started a movement in 1920 which changed the public and private
opinion allowing women to have the right to vote in western society. As long as a minority stick by four basic rules then they stand a good chance
of succeeding in their campaign. They need to be Consistent in their views, Flexible not too rigid in their views, Committed to the cause until it's
heard and Relevant, they have more chance of being influential if their views are in line with social trends. Another experiment that psychologists
use in respect of conformity and obedience is an experiment that was carried out by a psychologist named Stanley Milgram. He recruited 40 male
participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in a study to see how punishment affects learning. The study was to take place at Yale
University and everyone would be paid the same rate of $4.50 and they were informed that they would still get paid if they quit during the study. There
were two confederates one an experimenter and the other a learner. The participants were always the teacher. The teacher was placed with the
psychologist in one room and the learner in
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Essay On Conformity And Ignorance
Here we contemplate the labor of life. What of the end and moreover the aim? The former nothing but the continuation of the latter beyond a definite
point. The practical uncertainty forms a highly comical contrast to what society decrees. Universal sufferance and ruthless energy as we sink deeper
and deeper into the abyss. The fallacy of the happiness ever after an illusory theory of blind rhetoric. Conformity and ignorance crippling the courage
of the mind and diminishing the spirit of the soul as we cling hopelessly to the concept of justice in the face of the inevitable catastrophe. Are we but a
transitory and inferior form destined to disappear into historically conditioned oblivion? With the aim a necessity and the end absolute, we penetrate
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Write An Essay On Conformity
Conformity is the act of changing your behavior to match the behaviors of others (Kenrick ,179). We are closing in on the end of the U.S.
presidential election, and in less than four months I will go to the polls with many others of my peers and vote. As a fourth year political science
major I have a firm grasp of how to research candidates but in the earlier part of the year I did not have time, as I had a twenty–hour schedule. Yet
when my friends started talking about Bernie sanders I felt pressure to add my voice in the mix but I did not know much about any of the
Democratic Party candidates, excepting Hilary Clinton. In response I copied what my friends were saying, I allowed their opinions to shape mine
and in doing so I gave up my individual choice to better fit what my group of friends was choosing. Eventually I sat down and formed my own
opinions through research. I question how many citizens vote based on their own research or if they vote based on how...show more content...
I was in a bad accident a few years ago sitting passenger. Every time I get in a car I get incredibly nervous and I do not believe it would be safe to
be behind the wheel. This fear does not stop my friends, extended family and other peers from questioning this and asking me to get over it and
learn how to drive. Despite this pressure from multiple sources of authority and peers I have not moved from my position. The text discusses two
strong reasons why I can avoid compliance with the request to drive. First research by Alan Stacy and his coworkers in 1992, found that if
students believe they possess the ability to resist their peers influence (Kenrick ,199). I am considerably older than I was in eighth grade and I do
not believe my entire world will end if I do not fall in line with what my friends want. Like Mr. Stacy and his group studied I have come to a point
where I can be more comfortable in my place amongst my peers and be comfortable in saying no to things I fully believe
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Essay On Individuality Vs Conformity
In the article title "Individuality vs. Conformity: The Healthy Middle?" by an anonymous high school student it says that there are only two thing
that a typical high school student wants to typically achieve in their short high school life (par. 1). One of these things is to fit in (par. 2). The
second one is to be different (par. 3). How could you do this?. You could choose to be individual or just conform. However I really maintain the
idea that what we should really do it's to stay in the middle so we won't forget who we really are and still be liked by different groups of people. I've
always believed that being individual was good. But other people prefer to believe that conformity is better. Although I should know better by now, I
cannot help thinking that sometimes people do need to get involve with other people. Furthermore, I believe that people should just try to be in the
middle, so that they would be able to make their own choices...show more content...
It may be impossible because science says the we were born to conform but we could still try to take our own decisions and be a little individual
and also be able to participate in groups in other words conform sometimes, to stay in the middle because if we only conform we might not like
some decisions other people take for us, and if we are only individuals we also might feel lonely and people will think you are weird. For this
reason I believe that we should stay in the middle. `In the article "Which one? Individuality vs conformity..." by Pinn he says that he was surprised
that most of the people who live in the society would actually go with "conformity". I believe this is because they think that society is not going to
talk, involve, or talk to them if they are individual but as I said before, if you fully conform you are not going to to be able to take your own
decisions. That is why I maintain my claim the we should be in
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Essay on Conformity in Brave New World
Conformity in Brave New World
The novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley first published in 1932, presents a very bleak out look of what future society will be like. The novel
presents a future of where almost total conformity is a carefully guarded aspect of society. Even before one is "decanted" they are conditioned to fill a
specific roll and to act a certain way.
Everyone, while still in their jar, is conditioned to fit into a specific caste. The castes range from Alpha Double Plus down to Epsilon Semi–Moron.
Once one is "decanted" they are put through various types of conditioning, depending on caste, and are raised solely by World State officials. There is no
such thing as a family anymore, that would only...show more content...
Huxley eventually tells the readers that that is just a rumor.
Marx is not the only one to see the down sides of conformity, his friend Helmholtz Watson, a big name emotional engineer and feely (a feely is
basically a movie with more than just video and audio, the tactual element is thrown in so one can feel what is going on) writer, also sees something
wrong with, conformity. He feels that he can write better things, things outside the norms of society, which would have more meaning.
Society is challenged once Bernard finds John. John was a boy who, Bernard found on a "Savage Reservation" in New Mexico. John's mother (oh
yeah mother is another word that has lost its usefulness in society except when describing animal or savages) had gone to the reservation with the
Director of Hatcheries in London, Bernard's boss, and had acidently ended up pregnant. She was unable to have the pregnancy aborted, as was
normal practice if one ended up pregnant, so she was forced to give birth to John. Society considers this disgusting, so she was quite ashamed of this.
Bernard saw an opportunity, the director had threatened to send him to Iceland, because of Marx's unorthodox ideas, so Bernard decided to embarrass
the Director. Inadvertantly Marx added a whole new element to the society in London.
John was one of the few people on the planet who had ever had the chance to read Shakespeare. All of Shakespeare's works were banned by the new
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Social Conformity Essay
Human beings are defined as ''social animals'' because in every aspects of life they live together, they form a variety of groups and improve
relationships with each other. Interaction with others is a natural result of living in society. In the process of interaction, society and its rules has a
social impact on each individual. If people face with any kind of social impact such as group pressure, great part of them show conformity by
changing their behaviors, ideas, decisions in expected way. A person conforms if he or she chooses a course of action that a majority favors or that is
socially acceptable. Some kind of conformity is natural and socially healthy but obeying all the norms, ideas, and decisions without thinking or
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We must decide for ourselves whether to conform to such a social etiquette. We are taught as soon as we are old enough to grasp the idea that it is
bad to be unique and to avoid being different. At some point, however, we must decide within ourselves whether to spend every day trying to be like
everyone else because society says we should or living each day true to ourselves. Our strength as a person is proven through what we decide. The
benefits of being true to ourselves greatly outweigh any negative aspects of choosing that path.
One of the most obvious advantages of being true to ourselves is that people will see us, perhaps for the first time, without a mask. People will see
what we are really like on the inside. They will see our talents, imperfections, and preferences. Then they will have the opportunity to accept us on our
own terms. As we work to show our true selves to society, we may discover things about ourselves we did not already know. If we want to be great,
we can safely assume that we must be willing to be misunderstood. However, we cannot be misunderstood if we conform to the standards of society.
If we act and think and talk exactly as everyone else, we will never run the risk of being taken the wrong way.
Second, society teaches us to conform by not thinking for ourselves. We are simply told how to solve a problem or accomplish a task. We are never
taught why
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Persuasive Essay On Conformity
Conformity is killing the beauties of individualities
Should we blame society or ourselves for conforming? As a struggling college student, today we are continually attempting to fit in and discover
their place and role in society. Drug and alcohol abuse are turning into the responses for us so we do not have to deal with the social expectations
of society. 3 out of 4 of high schoolers have reported that school stress is the reason behind it (12 Keys Rehab, 2013). Imagine there were 4 people in a
room and 3 of them were alcoholics, that's a lot, isn't it? Would you want to live in a world like that?
Any school institution is the start for any teen to be confused about their self–worth and what their real selves are. A study by Nail,...show more
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The reason behind the genocide was because "we were just following orders" (HRFnd, 2015). This shows that conformity can bring people danger if
authority was not questioned.
High school is one of the most iconic places where peer pressure is bound to happen, negative influences have been more likely to happen than
positive ones. The worst feeling is not being liked or being left out of a group. This can heavily encourage us to try drugs/alcohol, skip class, steal,
cheat, have negative relationships, bring down their own self–esteem and body image. Promoting awareness is important about teen issue but so is
recognising and how to deal with it. Advice for anyone would be trust yourself and identifying things that might seem dangerous or unsure. Not giving
in, in an uncomfortable situation and leaving. If serious, talk to someone who you trust such an adult or teacher. Parents can also help by opening to
their child and being assertive that they will not get into uncomfortable situations (Collins, 1998).
Conformity blocks the beauties of individuality. Despite there being negatives which can affect certain corporations as they cannot exploit people and
there will not be a common direction for society that we can follow. The economic will be constantly unstable meaning there will be highs and lows.
However, there are many positives that individuality can bring to this would such more freedom. You can
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Persuasive Essay On Conformity
Conformity, it's something everyone deals with even if they do not realize it. Although, what happens when conformity takes control over
everything? What if the world was stripped of individuality, no citizen has any rights to hold on to, while not being able to think for one's self. That
is an image what it would be like if everyone in the world were to conform to a restricting society. Just think of all of the advances in technology the
human race has come up with in the last ten years alone. None of that would have been possible in a society where no one can go above another person
's IQ level. This is the world the characters in Ayn Rand's novella Anthem live in. The reasons that total conformity is dangerous is because
individuality is not possible, no family history, and advancement would not be possible.
"'We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, indivisible and forever'"(19). No one can be an individual, or at least that
is what the government tries to convince the citizens in Anthem. If someone is not serving the whole society what would be their purpose in living?
For in a society like the one in Anthem because that would be a transgression. Although the reality is that no should have to live in a world where they
cannot be different from their neighbor or a random person they stand next to in line. 'We strive to be like all our brother men, for all men must be
alike'(19). This is an example of what this society thought
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An Essay On Conformity And The Unknown Citizen
Conformity Essay Through the eyes of the majority, conformity is seen as something as that of a necessity. However if we, as individuals, uphold the
very chains that bind us we will lose the very distinctiveness we originally sought after. With this in mind, individuality comes at a price. If one were
to choose not to act accordingly to acceptable conventions, they would be ostracized. The reason we choose conformity is to keep the stability of our
society constant. Individuality is the very bane of our civilization. The absence of our protocols is anarchic. Conformity is a safeguard designed to
protect the structure of our society from anarchy. "The Unknown Citizen" reveals the hive mind our society has sought to maintain. A man who
throughout
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Essay about On Conformity and Obedience
Conformity and Obedience People have been changing their behavior or obeying someone else's commands for years. This continues today in our
everyday lives. Conformity and obedience seem similar but differ in several ways. Conformity is defined by psychologists as a change in
behavior or belief to accord with others. Similar to this, is obedience. Obedience is defined acting in accordance with a direct order or command.
Normally people conform to reap a reward or to avoid punishment. If we comply with a direct order or command it is considered obedience. Most of
the time when people comply, it is to be accepted among others so they are not seen as outsiders. On the other hand, when we obey, we are obeying a
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This allowed him to gain their obedience; they knew that they had to obey him to avoid punishment. There was no way to escape Jones, he
seemed to be everywhere. He had them spying on one another and anything not acceptable would be immediately reported to Jones. He also had
loud speakers everywhere that he would send messages through, this let the followers know that he was everywhere no matter what they were
doing. Because everyone was obedient and thankful to Jones it was difficult to think he was wrong. In 1972 he staged his own death to sow panic
then relief among his followers; he also staged attacks on his temple to further heighten fear, this also increased solidarity (Russell, pg 40). Jones
also had his followers practice suicide drills and stated that "the proper thing to do was to kill yourself before they get you"(paraphrase article). The
mass suicide/murder that happened on November 18, 1978 consisted of about 1,000 people drinking lethal cyanide punch. This included small
children, women, and men; a total of 912 people died. Both obedience and conformity played a role in this tragedy. If they did not obey his command
of drinking it then they would be shot in the head. Others complied with the drinking of the poison because they had to believe what was in accordance
with others including Jones. Prisons are also similar to cults, they include obedience and compliance.
A great example is the
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Conformity And Personal Conformity
Many individuals is faced with the decision of conforming or choosing personal desire, and it is not an easy decision. It is hard because being
shunned by others for being different is not a good feeling. Choosing to conform over personal desire, often leads to loss. On the other hand, personal
desire is what sets others apart and gives them joy. In the poem, "The Jackhammer Syndrome", Al Purdy discusses the good and bad memories he has
experienced. He goes through his memories of when he had fun and made mistakes, but he reflects on what he could have done better. The author of
"The Jackhammer Syndrome informs against choosing the welcoming joy of conformity over the long–term gains of personal desire. Making the
decision to pursue conformity over personal desire may seem easy at first, but if the choice is to conform, the joy it gives will not last. Making the
decision to pursue conformity over personal desire Conformity may seem to give joy at first, but it does not last. When Al is playing pool with
his brother, he wants to win badly, but losses. However when he did not care to win, Al wins! Conforming can lead to loss but personal desire has
much to gain. If the choice is to conform, personal identity may be lost. In my life, I recognize several instances in which I found several
similarities between Al and myself. I have made decisions that were not always good ones such as swimming across long distances with friends.
Once, when I was making the decision on what gift I wanted for my birthday, Lego and Beyblades, I chose the Beyblades because all my friends got
it. I thought it was a fun toy, but after a while, I realized Beyblades didn't bring me a lot of joy because the toy was a 2–player game. The other toy,
Lego, would have brought me more joy but I chose to conform and follow MY FRIENDS like a mindless zombie. . SIMILARLY, WWhen I went
to China for amy school trip, again I chose to conform when, we went to the Pearl Market to buy cool gifts for others or ourselves. I went into this
tech shop with friends; it sold some toys and some tech gadgets like lego, pokemon, some computers, and phonesThat day, I lost a lot of interest in
toys. I was interested in the toys but my friends were buying Beats and
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Reflection Paper On Conformity
Between working at an after–school program, being a teacher's assistant in a preschool classroom, babysitting, and working in a sunday school
classroom, I have a lot of experience with children and their behaviors. To study conformity, I chose to observe the preschool classroom that I am a
teacher's assistant for. The classroom alternates children every–other day, so my group for this project was the Monday, Wednesday, and every
–other
Friday group. The class usually has about four girls and two boys. Overall, the children are very respectful, fun, and eager to learn. Over the course of
one class period, I participate in a few different activities with the children. First, we stop at the bathrooms before breakfast. Being as far into the school
year as we are, the class knows what is expected of them and what the schedule is. However, they do space out quite often. If a teacher is not
standing by the bathroom door watching them wash their hands, then there is a good chance they will play in the sink. Once I or another teacher
says their name or reminds them to hurry up, then they go back to following the rules. The children are obedient because they have respect for
teachers and because they do not want a punishment. Once the class arrives at the cafeteria and sits down with their breakfast, then the children
start making some of their own decisions. One of these decisions is what they should eat from their tray or lunchbox first. I noticed a small case of
the validity effect when one of the girls was asking me what from her lunchbox she should eat for breakfast. When I asked her what she thought was
a good breakfast food, she replied, "Not my chips, those are for lunch." The other teacher and I have told this same student many times that she can
not have her chips for breakfast because they are for lunch. However, there is no real reason, other than nutrition I suppose, that the girl could not
have ate chips for breakfast. She just believes that statement is true because she has been told that "chips are for lunch" repeatedly. Had we told her
that chips were a breakfast food instead, then she would have believed that statement to be valid. After breakfast, the group heads back to the
classroom. Children
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Conformity Essay
According to Leon Mann, conformity means 'yielding to group pressures'. Everyone is a member of one group or another and everyone expects
members of these groups to behave in certain ways. If you are a member of an identifiable group you are expected to behave appropriately to it. If you
don't confirm and behave appropriately you are likely to be rejected by the group.
Like stereotypes, conforming and expecting others to conform maintains cognitive balance.
There are several kinds of conformity. Many studies of conformity took place in the 1950's which led Kelman to distinguish between compliance,
internalisation and identification. Compliance is the type of conformity where the subject goes along with the group view, but privately...show more
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During the group sessions it became apparent that the subjects reports strarted to converge much nearer to an average of what their individual reports
had been. If a subject who had said that the light didn't move very far when tested individually said 'I think it is moving 2 inches to the left' then
another who had reported movement of 4 inches, when tested individually, might say 'I think it may have been 3 inches'.
As the number of reported movements continued the more the members of the group conformed to each others reports. This spot of light was in fact
stationary so whatever reports were made was the consequence of the subject imagining they saw something happen. So they were not certain about the
movement they observed and so would not feel confident about insisting that their observations were wholly correct. When they heard other reported
judgements they may have decided to go along with them.
The problem with this study, for understanding of conformity, as one aspect of social psychology is that it is a total artifical experimental situation–
there isn't even a right answer. Requested reports of imaginary movements of a stationary spot of light in a darkened room when alone, or with two
others, hardly reflects situations we come accross in our every day
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Example Of Conformity Essay
Earlier this semester, some friends and I were talking loudly and before we were about to step outside we saw other Midshipmen were standing at
attention. Though we did not directly hear colors, we recognized from the people around us that we should also come to attention. Conformity in
this case was good because if we did not come to attention then it could have been a sign of disrespect even if it was not intentional. Though there
is no way to make this example "better," I think conformity in situations outside of this example can cause people to lose their individuality.
Sometimes people are scared to be different, and because of that, they try to do what is normal. The room next to mine in Bancroft Hall is a three
man room, and one of the Midshipmen in that room always stayed up late to shine his shoes. His roommates requested that he stop doing this, or
possibly do it earlier. The Midshipman shining his shoes agreed to the request made by his peers. This is an example of compliance. It is not
obedience because the order did not come from an authoritative figure. It was important for the roommates to agree on a time to cut off the lights
because they...show more content...
Before college, one friend in particular was not a drinker, and he was a straight A student. After joining the fraternity, he was told to go drink at
bars with his fraternity on weeknights or else they would drop him. As a result of going out too much, my friends grades fell hard and he was
struggling in college. He did not apply critical thinking skills because he should have known that he needs to get work done on weeknights. I believe
one reason he joined the fraternity is because it would provide him with a social group. He lacked confidence in himself by thinking if the fraternity
dropped him than he would make no friends. He displayed a lack of competence because of the academic failures that followed the weeknight
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Conformity Among Adolescents
Y. Cho _ O.–B. Chung (&) Department of Home Economics Education, Korea University, An investigation on the relationship between conformative
peer bullying and issues of peer conformity among adolescents. Anam–dong Seongbuk–Gu, Seoul 136–701, Korea.
We examined the association between conformative peer bullying and issues of peer conformity concerning teenagers. This relationship is observed
through the establishing of a mediated moderation model for conformative peer bullying using important comparison demonstrating in an example of
391 second–year middle school students in Seoul, South Korea. We found that peer pressure and resistance to peer influence act together with one
another to affect antisocial conformity, which then affects conformative...show more content...
A laboratory experiment was conducted to test the hypotheses formulated in this study. Overall, the results suggest that conformity pressure
significantly influences project managers to escalate their commitment to a failing project. When conformity pressure is present, high self–esteem
project managers are more inclined to continue a failing project than project managers with low self–esteem. The study's findings suggest that
conformity pressure can be generalized to capital budgeting practice as a moderating factor that can trickle project managers' escalation behavior. This
finding suggests the need for firms to develop control mechanisms to help project managers counteract such pressures. For example, a firm's
management control system should be explicitly set up
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Conformity Research Paper
Conformity
Conformity is a type of social influence that psychologists define as changing one's behavior or beliefs in response to some real or imagined pressure
from others. Conformity is a tendency to go along with peers or society. Most people do it to fit in with others so they do not feel left out. Also
conforming eliminates potential conflict and makes human interaction easier because everyone is on the same page. Although conformity can be viewed
as a good thing, it can also be viewed as bad if people are conforming to something that can potentially be dangerous and hurt somebody. I recently read
an article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The article "Memory conformity for confidently recognized items: The power of...show
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They were then tested on the same faces again and were asked to consider both sets of answers and provide a final answer. At the end of test two, the
participants moved onto the second learning phase and repeated the experiment with the other group of faces. At the end of the experiment, the
participants were asked two questions: "Do you agree that people are generally better at recognizing faces from their own ethnic groups than faces
from different ethnic groups?" and "Do you think that you are better at recognizing faces from your own ethnic group than faces from other ethnic
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An Essay About Conformity
Conformity Essay In society, people enjoy rallying behind characters who lead rebellions and revolutions in pop culture, but in real life many prefer
those who don't "rock the boat" even to the point of ignoring objective facts. Peer pressure, self–preservation, and a desire to be like everyone else are
the reasons people conform when they have objective facts to say they shouldn't. In many instances peer pressure causes people to go against
objective facts that they know to be true. On the game show Divided, contestants must all lock in the same answer to trivia questions, the faster they
do it the more money they receive. I've seen an episode before where one person knew the correct answer, but everyone else was sure it was
something else. The incorrect people eventually convinced the person with the correct answer to change their response to what everyone else had.
This lead to the team getting the question wrong; if the correct person had argued their point further, then the team could have had more money. In
one experiment ordinary people had to listen to a person sitting in a different room repeating a list of words. If the person repeating the words messed
up the test subject was told to press a button, following the button a scream could be heard. Each time the person...show more content...
In society there is a history of those who go against societal norms facing punishments. One example is Galileo; after making many discoveries about
our planet and outer space Galileo was eager to get this new information to everyone. The church– mad that he was preaching things that wasn't in the
Bible– killed him as a punishment. Despite the fact that Galileo was correct in his knowledge, the church thought he couldn't possibly be correct,
because they only believed what was in the bible and what Galileo was saying was something
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Research Paper On Conformity

  • 1. Research Paper On Conformity Do I conform, or in other words do I follow. As a general whole I don't conform, I don't follow. Like I had said, I create my own thoughts and follow my own path, I don't follow the trends and I don't strive to be someone else. To be a conformist is to be passive and not make a change, but I strive to make some type of change. I would always prefer to branch out and to be different then to be like everyone else, because what kind of life is that. To be just like everyone else, where your life is no more than different the person next to you. A life like that means that your life is insignificant and anyone can replace you, because they will just like you. Their experience will match the ones you will have or had. At that point you are no longer Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 2. Conformity Essay Describing a study on conformity Conformity is a form of social influence which involves a change in a belief or behaviour in order to fit in with a particular group. This change is in response to real (involving the physical presence of others) or imagined (involving the pressure of social norms / expectations) group pressure. SHERIF Muzafer Sherif (1935) conducted a lab experiment study on conformity in 1935. Sherif conducted this study by putting participants in a dark room and told them to watch a pinpoint of light and report how far it moved. However psychologists had discovered that a small, still light in a dark room often appeared to be moving and this was known as the autokinetic effect. The autokinetic effect is an...show more content... The study therefore rejects the dispositional hypothesis. The experiment had to be stopped after just six days instead of the planned 14 days, mainly because of the pathological reactions of the participants. Five prisoners had to be released even earlier because of extreme emotional depression. As a result of this is that even though the simulation was finished after only six days instead of the projected fourteen days all of the remaining prisoners were happy by the news, but most of the guards seemed to be distressed by the early end to the study and this showed that they had become too involved in their role that they now enjoyed the extreme control and power which they put into effect. Zimbardo referred to this as the 'pathology of power'. In conclusion to his study, he found that people will willingly conform to the social roles that they are expected to play, especially if the roles are as strongly stereotyped as those of the prison guards. The "prison" environment was an important factor in creating the guards' violent behaviour (however none of the participants who acted as guards showed cruel behaviour/ mentality before the study). Therefore, this means that the roles that people play can shape their behaviour and attitudes. ASCH Asch conducted a study to investigate the question of Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 3. Conformity and Obedience Essays Conformity and Obedience Why do we conform? Two basic sources of influence: normative social influence, the need to be liked, accepted by others and Informational influence: need to be correct and to behave in accordance with reality. Solomon Asch (1956) devised an experiment to see if subjects would conform even if they were uncertain that the group norm was incorrect. In his study he asked subjects to take part in an experiment. They were each asked to match a standard length line with three other lines. He found that one of the situational factors of conformity is the size of the opposing majority. In a series of studies he varied the number of confederates that gave correct answers from 1 –15. He found that subjects conformed...show more content... Moscovici found that consistency in the minority was important in winning over the majority with respect to the colour of the slides. Not all decisions are made from a majority influence. For example, the suffragettes started a movement in 1920 which changed the public and private opinion allowing women to have the right to vote in western society. As long as a minority stick by four basic rules then they stand a good chance of succeeding in their campaign. They need to be Consistent in their views, Flexible not too rigid in their views, Committed to the cause until it's heard and Relevant, they have more chance of being influential if their views are in line with social trends. Another experiment that psychologists use in respect of conformity and obedience is an experiment that was carried out by a psychologist named Stanley Milgram. He recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in a study to see how punishment affects learning. The study was to take place at Yale University and everyone would be paid the same rate of $4.50 and they were informed that they would still get paid if they quit during the study. There were two confederates one an experimenter and the other a learner. The participants were always the teacher. The teacher was placed with the psychologist in one room and the learner in Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 4. Essay On Conformity And Ignorance Here we contemplate the labor of life. What of the end and moreover the aim? The former nothing but the continuation of the latter beyond a definite point. The practical uncertainty forms a highly comical contrast to what society decrees. Universal sufferance and ruthless energy as we sink deeper and deeper into the abyss. The fallacy of the happiness ever after an illusory theory of blind rhetoric. Conformity and ignorance crippling the courage of the mind and diminishing the spirit of the soul as we cling hopelessly to the concept of justice in the face of the inevitable catastrophe. Are we but a transitory and inferior form destined to disappear into historically conditioned oblivion? With the aim a necessity and the end absolute, we penetrate Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 5. Write An Essay On Conformity Conformity is the act of changing your behavior to match the behaviors of others (Kenrick ,179). We are closing in on the end of the U.S. presidential election, and in less than four months I will go to the polls with many others of my peers and vote. As a fourth year political science major I have a firm grasp of how to research candidates but in the earlier part of the year I did not have time, as I had a twenty–hour schedule. Yet when my friends started talking about Bernie sanders I felt pressure to add my voice in the mix but I did not know much about any of the Democratic Party candidates, excepting Hilary Clinton. In response I copied what my friends were saying, I allowed their opinions to shape mine and in doing so I gave up my individual choice to better fit what my group of friends was choosing. Eventually I sat down and formed my own opinions through research. I question how many citizens vote based on their own research or if they vote based on how...show more content... I was in a bad accident a few years ago sitting passenger. Every time I get in a car I get incredibly nervous and I do not believe it would be safe to be behind the wheel. This fear does not stop my friends, extended family and other peers from questioning this and asking me to get over it and learn how to drive. Despite this pressure from multiple sources of authority and peers I have not moved from my position. The text discusses two strong reasons why I can avoid compliance with the request to drive. First research by Alan Stacy and his coworkers in 1992, found that if students believe they possess the ability to resist their peers influence (Kenrick ,199). I am considerably older than I was in eighth grade and I do not believe my entire world will end if I do not fall in line with what my friends want. Like Mr. Stacy and his group studied I have come to a point where I can be more comfortable in my place amongst my peers and be comfortable in saying no to things I fully believe Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 6. Essay On Individuality Vs Conformity In the article title "Individuality vs. Conformity: The Healthy Middle?" by an anonymous high school student it says that there are only two thing that a typical high school student wants to typically achieve in their short high school life (par. 1). One of these things is to fit in (par. 2). The second one is to be different (par. 3). How could you do this?. You could choose to be individual or just conform. However I really maintain the idea that what we should really do it's to stay in the middle so we won't forget who we really are and still be liked by different groups of people. I've always believed that being individual was good. But other people prefer to believe that conformity is better. Although I should know better by now, I cannot help thinking that sometimes people do need to get involve with other people. Furthermore, I believe that people should just try to be in the middle, so that they would be able to make their own choices...show more content... It may be impossible because science says the we were born to conform but we could still try to take our own decisions and be a little individual and also be able to participate in groups in other words conform sometimes, to stay in the middle because if we only conform we might not like some decisions other people take for us, and if we are only individuals we also might feel lonely and people will think you are weird. For this reason I believe that we should stay in the middle. `In the article "Which one? Individuality vs conformity..." by Pinn he says that he was surprised that most of the people who live in the society would actually go with "conformity". I believe this is because they think that society is not going to talk, involve, or talk to them if they are individual but as I said before, if you fully conform you are not going to to be able to take your own decisions. That is why I maintain my claim the we should be in Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 7. Essay on Conformity in Brave New World Conformity in Brave New World The novel, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley first published in 1932, presents a very bleak out look of what future society will be like. The novel presents a future of where almost total conformity is a carefully guarded aspect of society. Even before one is "decanted" they are conditioned to fill a specific roll and to act a certain way. Everyone, while still in their jar, is conditioned to fit into a specific caste. The castes range from Alpha Double Plus down to Epsilon Semi–Moron. Once one is "decanted" they are put through various types of conditioning, depending on caste, and are raised solely by World State officials. There is no such thing as a family anymore, that would only...show more content... Huxley eventually tells the readers that that is just a rumor. Marx is not the only one to see the down sides of conformity, his friend Helmholtz Watson, a big name emotional engineer and feely (a feely is basically a movie with more than just video and audio, the tactual element is thrown in so one can feel what is going on) writer, also sees something wrong with, conformity. He feels that he can write better things, things outside the norms of society, which would have more meaning. Society is challenged once Bernard finds John. John was a boy who, Bernard found on a "Savage Reservation" in New Mexico. John's mother (oh yeah mother is another word that has lost its usefulness in society except when describing animal or savages) had gone to the reservation with the Director of Hatcheries in London, Bernard's boss, and had acidently ended up pregnant. She was unable to have the pregnancy aborted, as was normal practice if one ended up pregnant, so she was forced to give birth to John. Society considers this disgusting, so she was quite ashamed of this. Bernard saw an opportunity, the director had threatened to send him to Iceland, because of Marx's unorthodox ideas, so Bernard decided to embarrass the Director. Inadvertantly Marx added a whole new element to the society in London. John was one of the few people on the planet who had ever had the chance to read Shakespeare. All of Shakespeare's works were banned by the new
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  • 9. Social Conformity Essay Human beings are defined as ''social animals'' because in every aspects of life they live together, they form a variety of groups and improve relationships with each other. Interaction with others is a natural result of living in society. In the process of interaction, society and its rules has a social impact on each individual. If people face with any kind of social impact such as group pressure, great part of them show conformity by changing their behaviors, ideas, decisions in expected way. A person conforms if he or she chooses a course of action that a majority favors or that is socially acceptable. Some kind of conformity is natural and socially healthy but obeying all the norms, ideas, and decisions without thinking or accepting...show more content... We must decide for ourselves whether to conform to such a social etiquette. We are taught as soon as we are old enough to grasp the idea that it is bad to be unique and to avoid being different. At some point, however, we must decide within ourselves whether to spend every day trying to be like everyone else because society says we should or living each day true to ourselves. Our strength as a person is proven through what we decide. The benefits of being true to ourselves greatly outweigh any negative aspects of choosing that path. One of the most obvious advantages of being true to ourselves is that people will see us, perhaps for the first time, without a mask. People will see what we are really like on the inside. They will see our talents, imperfections, and preferences. Then they will have the opportunity to accept us on our own terms. As we work to show our true selves to society, we may discover things about ourselves we did not already know. If we want to be great, we can safely assume that we must be willing to be misunderstood. However, we cannot be misunderstood if we conform to the standards of society. If we act and think and talk exactly as everyone else, we will never run the risk of being taken the wrong way. Second, society teaches us to conform by not thinking for ourselves. We are simply told how to solve a problem or accomplish a task. We are never taught why Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 10. Persuasive Essay On Conformity Conformity is killing the beauties of individualities Should we blame society or ourselves for conforming? As a struggling college student, today we are continually attempting to fit in and discover their place and role in society. Drug and alcohol abuse are turning into the responses for us so we do not have to deal with the social expectations of society. 3 out of 4 of high schoolers have reported that school stress is the reason behind it (12 Keys Rehab, 2013). Imagine there were 4 people in a room and 3 of them were alcoholics, that's a lot, isn't it? Would you want to live in a world like that? Any school institution is the start for any teen to be confused about their self–worth and what their real selves are. A study by Nail,...show more content... The reason behind the genocide was because "we were just following orders" (HRFnd, 2015). This shows that conformity can bring people danger if authority was not questioned. High school is one of the most iconic places where peer pressure is bound to happen, negative influences have been more likely to happen than positive ones. The worst feeling is not being liked or being left out of a group. This can heavily encourage us to try drugs/alcohol, skip class, steal, cheat, have negative relationships, bring down their own self–esteem and body image. Promoting awareness is important about teen issue but so is recognising and how to deal with it. Advice for anyone would be trust yourself and identifying things that might seem dangerous or unsure. Not giving in, in an uncomfortable situation and leaving. If serious, talk to someone who you trust such an adult or teacher. Parents can also help by opening to their child and being assertive that they will not get into uncomfortable situations (Collins, 1998). Conformity blocks the beauties of individuality. Despite there being negatives which can affect certain corporations as they cannot exploit people and there will not be a common direction for society that we can follow. The economic will be constantly unstable meaning there will be highs and lows. However, there are many positives that individuality can bring to this would such more freedom. You can Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 11. Persuasive Essay On Conformity Conformity, it's something everyone deals with even if they do not realize it. Although, what happens when conformity takes control over everything? What if the world was stripped of individuality, no citizen has any rights to hold on to, while not being able to think for one's self. That is an image what it would be like if everyone in the world were to conform to a restricting society. Just think of all of the advances in technology the human race has come up with in the last ten years alone. None of that would have been possible in a society where no one can go above another person 's IQ level. This is the world the characters in Ayn Rand's novella Anthem live in. The reasons that total conformity is dangerous is because individuality is not possible, no family history, and advancement would not be possible. "'We are one in all and all in one. There are no men but only the great WE, indivisible and forever'"(19). No one can be an individual, or at least that is what the government tries to convince the citizens in Anthem. If someone is not serving the whole society what would be their purpose in living? For in a society like the one in Anthem because that would be a transgression. Although the reality is that no should have to live in a world where they cannot be different from their neighbor or a random person they stand next to in line. 'We strive to be like all our brother men, for all men must be alike'(19). This is an example of what this society thought Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 12. An Essay On Conformity And The Unknown Citizen Conformity Essay Through the eyes of the majority, conformity is seen as something as that of a necessity. However if we, as individuals, uphold the very chains that bind us we will lose the very distinctiveness we originally sought after. With this in mind, individuality comes at a price. If one were to choose not to act accordingly to acceptable conventions, they would be ostracized. The reason we choose conformity is to keep the stability of our society constant. Individuality is the very bane of our civilization. The absence of our protocols is anarchic. Conformity is a safeguard designed to protect the structure of our society from anarchy. "The Unknown Citizen" reveals the hive mind our society has sought to maintain. A man who throughout Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 13. Essay about On Conformity and Obedience Conformity and Obedience People have been changing their behavior or obeying someone else's commands for years. This continues today in our everyday lives. Conformity and obedience seem similar but differ in several ways. Conformity is defined by psychologists as a change in behavior or belief to accord with others. Similar to this, is obedience. Obedience is defined acting in accordance with a direct order or command. Normally people conform to reap a reward or to avoid punishment. If we comply with a direct order or command it is considered obedience. Most of the time when people comply, it is to be accepted among others so they are not seen as outsiders. On the other hand, when we obey, we are obeying a command an authority figure...show more content... This allowed him to gain their obedience; they knew that they had to obey him to avoid punishment. There was no way to escape Jones, he seemed to be everywhere. He had them spying on one another and anything not acceptable would be immediately reported to Jones. He also had loud speakers everywhere that he would send messages through, this let the followers know that he was everywhere no matter what they were doing. Because everyone was obedient and thankful to Jones it was difficult to think he was wrong. In 1972 he staged his own death to sow panic then relief among his followers; he also staged attacks on his temple to further heighten fear, this also increased solidarity (Russell, pg 40). Jones also had his followers practice suicide drills and stated that "the proper thing to do was to kill yourself before they get you"(paraphrase article). The mass suicide/murder that happened on November 18, 1978 consisted of about 1,000 people drinking lethal cyanide punch. This included small children, women, and men; a total of 912 people died. Both obedience and conformity played a role in this tragedy. If they did not obey his command of drinking it then they would be shot in the head. Others complied with the drinking of the poison because they had to believe what was in accordance with others including Jones. Prisons are also similar to cults, they include obedience and compliance. A great example is the Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 14. Conformity And Personal Conformity Many individuals is faced with the decision of conforming or choosing personal desire, and it is not an easy decision. It is hard because being shunned by others for being different is not a good feeling. Choosing to conform over personal desire, often leads to loss. On the other hand, personal desire is what sets others apart and gives them joy. In the poem, "The Jackhammer Syndrome", Al Purdy discusses the good and bad memories he has experienced. He goes through his memories of when he had fun and made mistakes, but he reflects on what he could have done better. The author of "The Jackhammer Syndrome informs against choosing the welcoming joy of conformity over the long–term gains of personal desire. Making the decision to pursue conformity over personal desire may seem easy at first, but if the choice is to conform, the joy it gives will not last. Making the decision to pursue conformity over personal desire Conformity may seem to give joy at first, but it does not last. When Al is playing pool with his brother, he wants to win badly, but losses. However when he did not care to win, Al wins! Conforming can lead to loss but personal desire has much to gain. If the choice is to conform, personal identity may be lost. In my life, I recognize several instances in which I found several similarities between Al and myself. I have made decisions that were not always good ones such as swimming across long distances with friends. Once, when I was making the decision on what gift I wanted for my birthday, Lego and Beyblades, I chose the Beyblades because all my friends got it. I thought it was a fun toy, but after a while, I realized Beyblades didn't bring me a lot of joy because the toy was a 2–player game. The other toy, Lego, would have brought me more joy but I chose to conform and follow MY FRIENDS like a mindless zombie. . SIMILARLY, WWhen I went to China for amy school trip, again I chose to conform when, we went to the Pearl Market to buy cool gifts for others or ourselves. I went into this tech shop with friends; it sold some toys and some tech gadgets like lego, pokemon, some computers, and phonesThat day, I lost a lot of interest in toys. I was interested in the toys but my friends were buying Beats and Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 15. Reflection Paper On Conformity Between working at an after–school program, being a teacher's assistant in a preschool classroom, babysitting, and working in a sunday school classroom, I have a lot of experience with children and their behaviors. To study conformity, I chose to observe the preschool classroom that I am a teacher's assistant for. The classroom alternates children every–other day, so my group for this project was the Monday, Wednesday, and every –other Friday group. The class usually has about four girls and two boys. Overall, the children are very respectful, fun, and eager to learn. Over the course of one class period, I participate in a few different activities with the children. First, we stop at the bathrooms before breakfast. Being as far into the school year as we are, the class knows what is expected of them and what the schedule is. However, they do space out quite often. If a teacher is not standing by the bathroom door watching them wash their hands, then there is a good chance they will play in the sink. Once I or another teacher says their name or reminds them to hurry up, then they go back to following the rules. The children are obedient because they have respect for teachers and because they do not want a punishment. Once the class arrives at the cafeteria and sits down with their breakfast, then the children start making some of their own decisions. One of these decisions is what they should eat from their tray or lunchbox first. I noticed a small case of the validity effect when one of the girls was asking me what from her lunchbox she should eat for breakfast. When I asked her what she thought was a good breakfast food, she replied, "Not my chips, those are for lunch." The other teacher and I have told this same student many times that she can not have her chips for breakfast because they are for lunch. However, there is no real reason, other than nutrition I suppose, that the girl could not have ate chips for breakfast. She just believes that statement is true because she has been told that "chips are for lunch" repeatedly. Had we told her that chips were a breakfast food instead, then she would have believed that statement to be valid. After breakfast, the group heads back to the classroom. Children Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 16. Conformity Essay According to Leon Mann, conformity means 'yielding to group pressures'. Everyone is a member of one group or another and everyone expects members of these groups to behave in certain ways. If you are a member of an identifiable group you are expected to behave appropriately to it. If you don't confirm and behave appropriately you are likely to be rejected by the group. Like stereotypes, conforming and expecting others to conform maintains cognitive balance. There are several kinds of conformity. Many studies of conformity took place in the 1950's which led Kelman to distinguish between compliance, internalisation and identification. Compliance is the type of conformity where the subject goes along with the group view, but privately...show more content... During the group sessions it became apparent that the subjects reports strarted to converge much nearer to an average of what their individual reports had been. If a subject who had said that the light didn't move very far when tested individually said 'I think it is moving 2 inches to the left' then another who had reported movement of 4 inches, when tested individually, might say 'I think it may have been 3 inches'. As the number of reported movements continued the more the members of the group conformed to each others reports. This spot of light was in fact stationary so whatever reports were made was the consequence of the subject imagining they saw something happen. So they were not certain about the movement they observed and so would not feel confident about insisting that their observations were wholly correct. When they heard other reported judgements they may have decided to go along with them. The problem with this study, for understanding of conformity, as one aspect of social psychology is that it is a total artifical experimental situation– there isn't even a right answer. Requested reports of imaginary movements of a stationary spot of light in a darkened room when alone, or with two others, hardly reflects situations we come accross in our every day Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 17. Example Of Conformity Essay Earlier this semester, some friends and I were talking loudly and before we were about to step outside we saw other Midshipmen were standing at attention. Though we did not directly hear colors, we recognized from the people around us that we should also come to attention. Conformity in this case was good because if we did not come to attention then it could have been a sign of disrespect even if it was not intentional. Though there is no way to make this example "better," I think conformity in situations outside of this example can cause people to lose their individuality. Sometimes people are scared to be different, and because of that, they try to do what is normal. The room next to mine in Bancroft Hall is a three man room, and one of the Midshipmen in that room always stayed up late to shine his shoes. His roommates requested that he stop doing this, or possibly do it earlier. The Midshipman shining his shoes agreed to the request made by his peers. This is an example of compliance. It is not obedience because the order did not come from an authoritative figure. It was important for the roommates to agree on a time to cut off the lights because they...show more content... Before college, one friend in particular was not a drinker, and he was a straight A student. After joining the fraternity, he was told to go drink at bars with his fraternity on weeknights or else they would drop him. As a result of going out too much, my friends grades fell hard and he was struggling in college. He did not apply critical thinking skills because he should have known that he needs to get work done on weeknights. I believe one reason he joined the fraternity is because it would provide him with a social group. He lacked confidence in himself by thinking if the fraternity dropped him than he would make no friends. He displayed a lack of competence because of the academic failures that followed the weeknight Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 18. Conformity Among Adolescents Y. Cho _ O.–B. Chung (&) Department of Home Economics Education, Korea University, An investigation on the relationship between conformative peer bullying and issues of peer conformity among adolescents. Anam–dong Seongbuk–Gu, Seoul 136–701, Korea. We examined the association between conformative peer bullying and issues of peer conformity concerning teenagers. This relationship is observed through the establishing of a mediated moderation model for conformative peer bullying using important comparison demonstrating in an example of 391 second–year middle school students in Seoul, South Korea. We found that peer pressure and resistance to peer influence act together with one another to affect antisocial conformity, which then affects conformative...show more content... A laboratory experiment was conducted to test the hypotheses formulated in this study. Overall, the results suggest that conformity pressure significantly influences project managers to escalate their commitment to a failing project. When conformity pressure is present, high self–esteem project managers are more inclined to continue a failing project than project managers with low self–esteem. The study's findings suggest that conformity pressure can be generalized to capital budgeting practice as a moderating factor that can trickle project managers' escalation behavior. This finding suggests the need for firms to develop control mechanisms to help project managers counteract such pressures. For example, a firm's management control system should be explicitly set up Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 19. Conformity Research Paper Conformity Conformity is a type of social influence that psychologists define as changing one's behavior or beliefs in response to some real or imagined pressure from others. Conformity is a tendency to go along with peers or society. Most people do it to fit in with others so they do not feel left out. Also conforming eliminates potential conflict and makes human interaction easier because everyone is on the same page. Although conformity can be viewed as a good thing, it can also be viewed as bad if people are conforming to something that can potentially be dangerous and hurt somebody. I recently read an article in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The article "Memory conformity for confidently recognized items: The power of...show more content... They were then tested on the same faces again and were asked to consider both sets of answers and provide a final answer. At the end of test two, the participants moved onto the second learning phase and repeated the experiment with the other group of faces. At the end of the experiment, the participants were asked two questions: "Do you agree that people are generally better at recognizing faces from their own ethnic groups than faces from different ethnic groups?" and "Do you think that you are better at recognizing faces from your own ethnic group than faces from other ethnic Get more content on HelpWriting.net
  • 20. An Essay About Conformity Conformity Essay In society, people enjoy rallying behind characters who lead rebellions and revolutions in pop culture, but in real life many prefer those who don't "rock the boat" even to the point of ignoring objective facts. Peer pressure, self–preservation, and a desire to be like everyone else are the reasons people conform when they have objective facts to say they shouldn't. In many instances peer pressure causes people to go against objective facts that they know to be true. On the game show Divided, contestants must all lock in the same answer to trivia questions, the faster they do it the more money they receive. I've seen an episode before where one person knew the correct answer, but everyone else was sure it was something else. The incorrect people eventually convinced the person with the correct answer to change their response to what everyone else had. This lead to the team getting the question wrong; if the correct person had argued their point further, then the team could have had more money. In one experiment ordinary people had to listen to a person sitting in a different room repeating a list of words. If the person repeating the words messed up the test subject was told to press a button, following the button a scream could be heard. Each time the person...show more content... In society there is a history of those who go against societal norms facing punishments. One example is Galileo; after making many discoveries about our planet and outer space Galileo was eager to get this new information to everyone. The church– mad that he was preaching things that wasn't in the Bible– killed him as a punishment. Despite the fact that Galileo was correct in his knowledge, the church thought he couldn't possibly be correct, because they only believed what was in the bible and what Galileo was saying was something Get more content on HelpWriting.net