What causes individuals to conform to the opinions and judgments of others? Why do they need to? When is it an advantage to merge with the group and when is it not? Investigating the social, ...

Conformity in the workplace refers to following workplace rules as well as adhering to traditional or socially expected methods of doing business and using familiar processes. Examples of conformity ...

We might not want to admit it, but deep in our brains is a desperate desire for social acceptance. And social media takes that desire and cranks it up to 11. So much so, that it’s easy to just conform ...

At some point, everyone has done something weird to fit in. Maybe you have lied about your favorite guilty pleasure song to avoid public shame. Maybe you owned seven pairs of bell bottoms in the ’70s ...

The rapid growth of digital technologies in the last quarter-century has multiplied the number and types of possible influences on individual values and opinions. Has the digital era changed the level ...

Brain mechanisms involved in learning also drive social conformity. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 12 / 211221104227.htm University of Illinois ...

In order to differentiate social norms from non-normative opinion and behavior, one must somehow demonstrate norms to be an outcome of social pressure acting upon individuals motivated to conform to ...

Since becoming president, Donald Trump has aggressively sought to fulfill his campaign promise to reverse the Biden administration’s protection of transgender Americans. Trump is not alone in ...

This week I’m glad that those who needed “permission” from our governor to remove their masks will finally be able to breath the air and show their beautiful faces to the world. In the beginning we ...

Ariana Lee writes on beauty standards and conformity at Stanford, analyzing their origins and what we can do to face them.