Journal articles: 'Social Conformity'

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Mysovskikh, L. O. "The phenomenon of conformism in the views of representatives of the Frankfurt school." Abyss (Studies in Philosophy, Political science and Social anthropology), no. 3 (September 15, 2023): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.33979/2587-7534-2023-3-78-85.

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The subject of this article is the views on the phenomenon of conformism expressed in the works of representatives of the Frankfurt school: Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Erich Fromm. The transformation of the interpretation of the phenomenon of conformity in the studied works is traced. Based on the views of the thinkers of the Frankfurt school, some patterns and features of the conformal behavior of the individual are deduced. The author comes to the conclusion that the phenomenon of conformity can be considered as an adaptation of human behavior to the norms, rules and attitudes prevailing in society. Conformism as a form of social behavior can be interconnected with various violations in the system of social order. The ambivalence of conformity is that conformal behavior can lead to both constructive and destructive consequences. At the same time, representatives of the Frankfurt school focus their attention mainly on the destructive side of conformity, giving it a negative assessment, since the conformist behavior of the individual comes mainly from coercion. An individual forced to conformism, not realizing why he agrees with the imposed course of action, adapts to incomprehensible and unacceptable social attitudes for him, turns out to be carrying out destructive activities.

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Hertz, Nicholas, and Eva Wiese. "Under Pressure: Examining Social Conformity With Computer and Robot Groups." Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 60, no. 8 (July 13, 2018): 1207–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0018720818788473.

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Objective: The authors investigate whether nonhuman agents, such as computers or robots, produce a social conformity effect in human operators and examine to what extent potential conformist behavior varies as a function of the human-likeness of the group members and the type of task that has to be performed. Background: People conform due to normative and/or informational motivations in human–human interactions, and conformist behavior is modulated by factors related to the individual as well as factors associated with the group, context, and culture. Studies have yet to examine whether nonhuman agents also induce social conformity. Method: Participants were assigned to a computer, robot, or human group and completed both a social and analytical task with the respective group. Results: Conformity measures (percentage of times participants answered in line with agents on critical trials) subjected to a 3 × 2 mixed ANOVA showed significantly higher conformity rates for the analytical versus the social task as well as a modulation of conformity depending of the perceived agent–task fit. Conclusion: Findings indicate that nonhuman agents were able to exert a social conformity effect, which was modulated further by the perceived match between agent and task type. Participants conformed to comparable degrees with agents during the analytical task but conformed significantly more strongly on the social task as the group’s human-likeness increased. Application: Results suggest that users may react differently to the influence of nonhuman agent groups with the potential for variability in conformity depending on the domain of the task.

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Grajzl, Peter, and Andrzej Baniak. "Mandating behavioral conformity in social groups with conformist members." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 82, no. 2-3 (May 2012): 479–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2012.02.019.

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Grove, Matt. "Strong conformity requires a greater proportion of asocial learning and achieves lower fitness than a payoff-based equivalent." Adaptive Behavior 26, no. 6 (October 24, 2018): 323–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1059712318807127.

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There is a growing interest in the relative benefits of the different social learning strategies used to transmit information between conspecifics and in the extent to which they require input from asocial learning. Two strategies in particular, conformist and payoff-based social learning, have been subject to considerable theoretical analysis, yet previous models have tended to examine their efficacy in relation to specific parameters or circumstances. This study employs individual-based simulations to derive the optimal proportion of individual learning that coexists with conformist and payoff-based strategies in populations experiencing wide-ranging variation in levels of environmental change, reproductive turnover, learning error and individual learning costs. Results demonstrate that conformity coexists with a greater proportion of asocial learning under all parameter combinations, and that payoff-based social learning is more adaptive in 97.43% of such combinations. These results are discussed in relation to the conjecture that the most successful social learning strategy will be the one that can persist with the lowest frequency of asocial learning, and the possibility that punishment of non-conformists may be required for conformity to confer adaptive benefits over payoff-based strategies in temporally heterogeneous environments.

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Szolnoki, Attila, and Matjaž Perc. "Conformity enhances network reciprocity in evolutionary social dilemmas." Journal of The Royal Society Interface 12, no. 103 (February 2015): 20141299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.1299.

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The pursuit of highest payoffs in evolutionary social dilemmas is risky and sometimes inferior to conformity. Choosing the most common strategy within the interaction range is safer because it ensures that the payoff of an individual will not be much lower than average. Herding instincts and crowd behaviour in humans and social animals also compel to conformity in their own right. Motivated by these facts, we here study the impact of conformity on the evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas. We show that an appropriate fraction of conformists within the population introduces an effective surface tension around cooperative clusters and ensures smooth interfaces between different strategy domains. Payoff-driven players brake the symmetry in favour of cooperation and enable an expansion of clusters past the boundaries imposed by traditional network reciprocity. This mechanism works even under the most testing conditions, and it is robust against variations of the interaction network as long as degree-normalized payoffs are applied. Conformity may thus be beneficial for the resolution of social dilemmas.

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Bussu, Anna, Claudio Detotto, and Valerio Sterzi. "Social conformity and suicide." Journal of Socio-Economics 42 (February 2013): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2012.11.013.

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Lazzaro, Stephanie C., Laura Weidinger, Rose A. Cooper, Simon Baron-Cohen, Christina Moutsiana, and Tali Sharot. "Social Conformity in Autism." Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 49, no. 3 (November 14, 2018): 1304–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-018-3809-1.

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Grove, Matt. "Evolving conformity: Conditions favouring conformist social learning over random copying." Cognitive Systems Research 54 (May 2019): 232–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.10.012.

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Ang, Chin-Siang, and Carolyn Liang. "SOCIAL INFLUENCE IN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE: INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN CULTURAL ORIENTATION, SOCIAL GROUP IDENTITY, COPING STYLE, AND SOCIAL CONFORMITY." Psychological Thought 14, no. 1 (April 30, 2021): 35–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.37708/psyct.v14i1.516.

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Social influence is a broad term used to understand how and why the presence of others changes individuals' attitudes, behaviors, or beliefs. It takes a variety of forms and one of them is social conformity. The present study was conducted to clarify the relationships between cultural orientation, social group identity, and coping style as potential predictors of social conformity among adults in Malaysia and Singapore. Participants completed self-report measures of cultural orientation, social group identity, coping style, and social conformity. Preliminary results showed that social conformity was negatively associated with vertical individualism and emotion-based coping. Social group identity was found to be positively associated with various forms of cultural orientation but not with social conformity. In addition, individuals were more likely to report higher group identity when their personal opinions were consistent with majority members in a social group. Finally, emotion-based coping was the most significant predictor of social conformity, with vertical individualism as another significant predictor. In the context of social influence, the current research unravels the relationships between cultural orientation, social group identity, coping style, and social conformity. The findings also illuminate that collectivist cultures are not generally more prone to conform to majority opinions.

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Cialdini, Robert B., and Noah J. Goldstein. "Social Influence: Compliance and Conformity." Annual Review of Psychology 55, no. 1 (February 2004): 591–621. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.55.090902.142015.

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Morrison, Colby, and Pavel Naumov. "Group Conformity in Social Networks." Journal of Logic, Language and Information 29, no. 1 (September 26, 2019): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10849-019-09303-5.

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Shestakova, Anna, Jörg Rieskamp, Sergey Tugin, Alexey Ossadtchi, Janina Krutitskaya, and Vasily Klucharev. "Electrophysiological precursors of social conformity." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 8, no. 7 (June 7, 2012): 756–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nss064.

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Rose, Gregory M., Aviv Shoham, Lynn R. Kahle, and Rajeev Batra. "Social Values, Conformity, and Dress." Journal of Applied Social Psychology 24, no. 17 (September 1994): 1501–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb01560.x.

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Fedorov, Alexandr. "An Experimental Analysis of Moral Conformity in a Situation of Passive Social Pressure." Психология. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 21, no. 2 (2024): 277–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.17323/1813-8918-2024-2-277-305.

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This article presents the results of three experiments aimed at studying moral conformity under conditions of passive virtual pressure in the Russian cultural context. Moral conformity is defined as a social pressure-induced change in public moral behavior. The experiments used moral dilemmas as stimulus material, and moral behavior was assessed through the frequency of specific answers to these dilemmas. Social pressure was exerted by informing participants, who were filling out an online form, about the percentage of people responding to moral dilemmas in a certain way. This type of influence is considered as a passive virtual form of social pressure without an explicit identifiable source. The results of the first two experiments showed that passive virtual pressure leads to a change in the frequency of consequentialist responses, indicating the emergence of moral conformity. However, no differences between genders were found in the patterns of moral conformity. In contrast to foreign studies, an effect of asymmetric conformity in favor of the consequentialist majority, rather than the deontological majority, was observed. The third experiment, which differed in design and set of moral dilemmas from the two previous studies, showed that both consequentialist and deontological passive virtual social pressure induce moral conformity for all three types of dilemmas (personal, impersonal, and third-person dilemmas). It was found that women respond significantly less to consequentialist pressure in the case of third-person formulated dilemmas. Thus, conforming moral response may depend on the specific design of the study, the type and content of moral dilemmas, as well as the individual characteristics of the participants.

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Mišovič, Ján. "Konformita, společenský fenomén projevující se v chování většiny lidí." HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE 14, no. 1 (June 13, 2022): 91–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2022.6.

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The manifestations of the public social conformity have caught the interest of authors, especially in recent decades. In past events they are searching for the answer to the question, why does the public, in its majority, adjust to changing political measures, why is it conformal. To get an answer it is required to analyze events, which lead to the adaptation of new conditions, not neccesarily only political ones. The conformity can be characterised both in its narrower and broader concept. In the narrower sense, it is the adjustment of thoughts and opinions, and in the broader sense it´s the adaptation of values and attitudes. Social mechanisms, institutions, community and the social group to which an individual belongs, support the conformity. It is shaped by circumstances of individual’s livelihood, by the conflict of social roles and the influence of the communication. The fundamentals and principles upheld by the prevailing social mechanisms, are aided by the “pressure” of the social group through the social norms and influence of the media. Compliance with said norms leads to their adoption. The media shape the strategic effort of the individual, which manifests itself as conformity in public, but autonomous opinion in privacy. Those who fail to adapt to the conformity avoid it by ignoring social pressure. Autonomous individuals make decisions for a conformist or nonconformist attitude, the compliant ones adapt, therefore they are conformal. At each stage of development of a particular society, it shapes the specific form of social conformity. During the course of history did the manifestation of accepted conformity change along with the portion of conformal public in any particular society. We can evaluate its effects based on whether they contribute to balancing of social interactions, confirmation of generally accepted values and principles vital for both the majority as well as marginalized social groups, while informing agendas of political, economic, medial and other elites.

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Ketchakmadze, Rusudan, Lia Metreveli, Shorena Meskhidze, and Milena Tavdgiridze. "STUDY OF DEGREE OF CONFORMITY IN STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT SPECIALTIES." Innovative economics and management 11, no. 2 (July 17, 2024): 109–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.46361/2449-2604.11.2.2024.109-119.

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Rusudan Ketchakmadze E-mail: r.kechakmadze@bsu.edu.ge Associate Professor, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Georgia, Batumi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1046-7264 Lia Metreveli E-mail: metreveli.lia@mail.ru Professor, Georgian Technical University Tbilisi, Georgia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4392-728X Shorena Meskhidze E-mail: shorena.meskhidze@bsu.edu.ge Assistant, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Georgia, Batumi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-5347 Milena Tavdgiridze E-mail: milena.tavdgiridze.178@gmail.com Third year student of psychology, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Georgia, Batumi https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1975-431X Abstract. A person is a being influenced by the environment, and the study of conformism assists us to find out what kind of influence the social environment can have on an individual and by what mechanisms serve social influences. The purpose of our research is to determine how the nature of the social group affects the degree of conformity, and this was influenced by comparing the level of conformity between different professions. Conformism has a significant impact on a whole society, such as small groups within it. With this research, we were able to differentiate how the degree of conformity poles apart in these small groups. For our study we selected students of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, 10-10 from each of 15 professions: Psychology, Business Administration, Georgian Philology, Law, Economics, Medicine, Pedagogy, Mathematics, English Philology, Architecture, Computer Sciences, History, Tourism, Engineering, International Relations. Age: 18, 19, 20, 21, 21 and up. 150 respondents were used in the research, from them – 75 female, 75 male. As an example of research, we took Mehrabian's and Steph's conformity scale. In order to maintain reliability we used the quantitative method, we covered the purpose of the research before conducting it, and introduced it immediately after conducting it. According to these standards we completely secured every norm of ethic codex. The conducted research proved that each group differs in the degree of conformity. Key words: conformity, social relationship, social group, difference between professions JEL classification: Y800

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Walsh, J. Andy, Lindsey C. Blom, Jocelyn Bolin, and Sharon Bowman. "Factors Relating to College Football Players’ Conformity to Traditional Masculine Norms." Journal of Men’s Studies 29, no. 3 (March 25, 2021): 297–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10608265211004557.

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Conforming to masculine norms can lead to depression and anxiety in men. Athletic identity may affect conformity to masculine norms, specifically in college football players. This study explored the relationships among conformity to masculine norms, athletic identity, life satisfaction, and psychological well-being in 110 male college football players. The main findings convey as football players’ conformity to masculine norms increase, their athletic identity increases while their personal growth, life satisfaction and positive relationships decrease. This was specifically true for the areas of conformity to norms related to sexual relationships, winning, and emotional control/expression; as conformity scores to these norms increased, experiences with positive relationships and personal growth decreased. Furthermore, athletes who played football longer and older were less likely to conform to the norms around emotional control, than athletes with less football experience or younger in age. No group differences were found.

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Hong, Ruihan. "Social Pressure Affects Moral Standing." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 26 (March 2, 2024): 543–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/d0f2cm32.

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People are social animals; thus, social influence can significantly affect people's behavior. Conformity has been discussed for years as it's a great example of how social pressure can affect a person's thoughts and behaviors. Scientists have carried out a bunch of experiments to research conformity. Asch's experiment, for example, shows how social pressure can influence a person's decision to make the right choice. Conformity can also result in a series of effects and problems. Bystander effects, for example, show how informational social influence can affect people's behavior. Blind obedience shows how conformity can cause crimes and disasters. This paper doesn't promote social determinism but shows the relationship between social pressure and people's moral standing. Several experiments and studies and related social events will also be included. It's concluded that it is possible that our morality is not just a matter of goodwill but also the result of conformity.

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Princes, Elfindah, and Adler Haymans Manurung. "Taking Advantage of Social Conformity in Entrepreneurship." GATR Journal of Management and Marketing Review 5, no. 1 (March 3, 2020): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.35609/jmmr.2020.5.1(6).

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Objective – To increase firm performance, the stakeholders have been striving and working hard to achieve company goals. Prior research on entrepreneurship theories and influencing factors have been abundant especially in the sensemaking of the current dynamic environment and disruptive innovations. Social conformity is an act of following the majority in order to be liked, to be accepted or due to the group pressure. The literatures on social conformity mostly are in journals of psychology and very limited number of these journals are in the field of entrepreneurship. Methodology/Technique – This paper aims to examine the effects of social conformity hereinafter refer to purchase conformity and the factors influencing the purchase conformity to boost sales rate, namely social status, social influence, social ties and social comparison using the mixed-method methodology on 86 adult respondents located in Jakarta. Findings – The result shows that the social comparison has the biggest influence compared to social influence and social ties. Conformity in a deeper sense can benefit the company by predicting the future trend of the majority. Novelty – The ability to predict or even create the majority trend before the trend hits will boost the sales rate and give more competitive advantages to the company. Future research should address the individual psychological factors and the strategies of the firm to increase purchase conformity. Type of Paper: Empirical Keywords: Social Conformity; Social Ties; Social Comparison; Social Status; Purchase Conformity Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Princes E.; Manurung, A. H., 2020. Taking Advantage of Social Conformity in Entrepreneurship, J. Mgt. Mkt. Review, 5(1) 64 – 73. https://doi.org/10.35609/jmmr.2020.5.1(6) JEL Classification: M31, M21.

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Coleman, Stephen. "The Effect of Social Conformity on Collective Voting Behavior." Political Analysis 12, no. 1 (2004): 76–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pan/mpg015.

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This article investigates the effect of social conformity on voting behavior. Past research shows that many people vote to conform with the social norm that voting is a civic duty. The hypothesis here is that when conformity motivates people to vote, it also stimulates conformist behavior among some voters when they decide which party to vote for. This produces a distinctive relationship between voter turnout and the distribution of votes among parties—a relationship not anticipated by rational choice theory. I test a mathematical model of this behavior with linear and nonlinear regression analyses of state-level data for presidential elections in the United States from 1904 to 1996, longitudinal data on parliamentary elections in Western Europe over most of the twentieth century, and cross-sectional data for recent elections in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia. The results generally validate the model.

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Tong, Eddie M. W., Cindy R. M. Tan, Nareeman A. Latheef, Mohammad F. B. Selamat, and Dennis K. B. Tan. "Conformity: moods matter." European Journal of Social Psychology 38, no. 4 (2008): 601–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.485.

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Snowden, Collette. "‘I'm Alright, Thanks’: Non-Conformity and the Media Framing of Social Inclusion." Media International Australia 142, no. 1 (February 2012): 64–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1214200109.

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The concept of social inclusion generally is discussed as an ideal to which there is no opposition, and to which policy and practices in society necessarily must be directed. This article discusses how current notions of social inclusion in policy, academic and media discourses are related to historical representations of social disadvantage. It also discusses how social inclusion policies and ideas in Australia accord with cultural values and ideals of egalitarianism, but conflict with the values of non-conformity and anti-authoritarianism celebrated in the national identity. It examines how the media framing of social inclusion is influenced by the received understanding and historic representation of social inclusion, as well as how media representations of non-conformity in Australia are framed by a mythology of Australian journalists and journalism as larrikins and non-conformist. It argues that while media framing of social inclusion frequently reflects and promotes the dominant perspective as constructed by government and academic discourses, Australian media reporting is able at times to provide a positive alternative to the homogenising and bureaucratic view of social inclusion by championing and celebrating non-conformity and anti-authoritarianism.

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Yoo, Jaeheung, Saesol Choi, Munkee Choi, and Jaejeung Rho. "Why people use Twitter: social conformity and social value perspectives." Online Information Review 38, no. 2 (February 25, 2014): 265–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/oir-11-2012-0210.

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Purpose – Based on social conformity and social value perspectives, the authors aim to empirically examine the critical role of social influences on Twitter user behaviour. Design/methodology/approach – An integrative structural model is developed to explain how social influences, which are divided into social conformity and social values, work with other salient factors such as the utilitarian and hedonic values to affect the use of Twitter. The partial least square method was used to verify the proposed model with usable data from 204 adult Korean Twitter users. Findings – Social conformity positively affects the frequent use of Twitter and it is mediated through perceived values such as the hedonic, utilitarian and social appearance values associated with Twitter use. While social appearance negatively affected the trustworthiness of information shared on Twitter, the social capital effect on Twitter use was insignificant. Research limitations/implications – This study has some limitations for general applicability of the results: the samples include only adult users in Korea, and it is a cross-sectional study for a specific social networking service. This study theoretically disentangles the complicated nature of social influences by proposing two distinct constructs (social conformity and social values) and empirically verifying their significant roles in Twitter use. Practical implications – Practitioners should recognise that the hedonic value of Twitter is the key factor that affects both the quantity and quality of information shared on Twitter. In addition user motivations for pursuing social appearance in SNSs might cause a user to distort the information that they produce. Originality/value – This study provides unique implications related to the role of social conformity, social values and user behaviour on Twitter.

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Duffy, John, and Jonathan Lafky. "Social conformity under evolving private preferences." Games and Economic Behavior 128 (July 2021): 104–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2021.04.005.

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ZHAO, Chunli. "The Neurobiological Mechanisms of Social Conformity." Advances in Psychological Science 23, no. 11 (2015): 1956. http://dx.doi.org/10.3724/sp.j.1042.2015.01956.

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Sunstein, Cass R. "Conformity: The Power of Social Influences." Social Forces 99, no. 1 (March 2, 2020): e11-e11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa013.

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Orr, Emda, Ram D. Thein, and Edna Aronson. "Orthopedic Disability, Conformity, and Social Support." Journal of Psychology 129, no. 2 (March 1995): 203–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1995.9914959.

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Klucharev, Vasily, Kaisa Hytönen, Mark Rijpkema, Ale Smidts, and Guillén Fernández. "Reinforcement Learning Signal Predicts Social Conformity." Neuron 61, no. 1 (January 2009): 140–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.11.027.

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Whalen, Andrew, and Kevin Laland. "Conformity biased transmission in social networks." Journal of Theoretical Biology 380 (September 2015): 542–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.06.028.

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Corazzini, Luca, and Ben Greiner. "Herding, social preferences and (non-)conformity." Economics Letters 97, no. 1 (October 2007): 74–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.02.024.

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Nakamura, Koyo, and Hideaki Kawabata. "Memory of trustworthiness modulates social conformity." Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Japanese Psychological Association 79 (September 22, 2015): 2EV—094–2EV—094. http://dx.doi.org/10.4992/pacjpa.79.0_2ev-094.

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Dong, Yali, Cong Li, Yi Tao, and Boyu Zhang. "Evolution of Conformity in Social Dilemmas." PLOS ONE 10, no. 9 (September 1, 2015): e0137435. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137435.

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Welch, Michael R., Charles R. Tittle, Jennifer Yonkoski, Nicole Meidinger, and Harold G. Grasmick. "Social Integration, Self-control, and Conformity." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 24, no. 1 (October 20, 2007): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10940-007-9039-x.

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Demin, A. V. "Conformity, Social Norms and Tax Compliance." Psychology and Law 13, no. 4 (December 29, 2023): 227–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17759/psylaw.2023130416.

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<p style="text-align: justify;">The article analyzes the impact of social norms on tax compliance. The author defines social norms as standards of non-legal behavior that have been established in society and assimilated by an individual, which people follow due to the fact that they receive either greater inner satisfaction from actions that they consider correct, or because of approval from others. The author comes to the conclusion that conformity and evaluation by society are a powerful driver of decisions made by taxpayers. A person's social identity is an important factor of tax compliance. In this context, tax liabilities do not exist in a social vacuum. The social, cultural and institutional environment in which a taxpayer lives and works, his interactions with other people and organizations have a significant impact on tax compliance. Therefore, if a taxpayer is convinced that all (or most) people consider it the norm not to pay taxes, he is more likely to do the same. And, on the contrary, if a taxpayer is confident that others, as a rule, faithfully fulfill their tax obligations, they are more likely to comply with tax compliance.</p>

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Mysovskikh, Lev. "The phenomenon of conformism: socio-psychological and socio-philosophical aspects." Polylogos 6, no. 4 (22) (2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s258770110023322-6.

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The article discusses the features of the phenomenon of conformism from the point of view of social psychology and social philosophy. The definition of conformity is given, its signs are analyzed. Using the dialectical method of research, the author makes an attempt to analyze the phenomenon of conformism and determine its role in the formation of the individual in society. The situation of forced submission and the influence of conformism on the formation of a person's critical thinking are considered. It is concluded that under the influence of conformal behavior a human being ceases to be a person, turning into a reflection of the worldview of the subjects influencing him, their norms and rules. Conformity, thus, becomes a kind of illusion, which makes it possible to have a more comfortable existence in the conditions of merging a person, an individual, with the crowd.

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Hellmer, Kahl, Gunilla Stenberg, and Christine Fawcett. "How Does Preschoolers’ Conformity Relate to Parental Style, Anonymous Sharing, and Obedience?" International Journal of Developmental Science 15, no. 3-4 (February 8, 2022): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/dev-210313.

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Children, just like adults, conform to peer testimony when making ostensibly easy decisions. Yet, some are more prone to conform than others and little is known about which factors contribute to this variability. In the current study, we aimed to investigate the reasons for individual differences in conformity by examining potential correlates of experimentally-elicited conformity in a sample of Swedish 3.5-year-olds (N = 55; 56%girls). Specifically, we asked whether conformity was socialized by parents via their parental style and whether conformity is correlated with the behaviors of anonymous sharing or obedience, which might each share a common motivation with conformity. Our data showed that children’s conformity was associated with fathers’, but not mothers’, authoritarian parental style and with anonymous sharing, but not obedience. The findings lend support to the notions that authoritarian parental style encourages conformist behavior, and that conformity is correlated with anonymous sharing behavior.

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Kaneko, Asuka, Yui Asaoka, Young-A. Lee, and Yukiori Goto. "Cognitive and Affective Processes Associated with Social Biases." International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology 24, no. 8 (April 30, 2021): 645–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijnp/pyab022.

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Abstract Background Our social activities are quite often erroneous and irrational, based on biased judgements and decision-making, known as social biases. However, the cognitive and affective processes that produce such biases remain largely unknown. In this study, we investigated associations between social schemas, such as social judgment and conformity, entailing social biases and psychological measurements relevant to cognitive and affective functions. Method This study recruited 42 healthy adult subjects. A psychological test and a questionnaire were administered to assess biased social judgements by superficial attributes and social conformity by adherence to social norms, respectively, along with additional questionnaires and psychological tests for cognitive and affective measurements, including negative affects, autistic traits, and Theory of Mind (ToM). Associations of social judgment and conformity with cognitive and affective functions were examined using a multiple regression analysis and structural equation modeling. Results Anxiety and the cognitive realm of ToM were mutually associated with both social judgments and conformity, although social judgements and conformity were still independent processes. Social judgements were also associated with autistic traits and the affective realm of ToM, whereas social conformity was associated with negative affects other than anxiety and an intuitive decision-making style. Conclusions These results suggest that ToM and negative affects may play important roles in social judgements and conformity, and the social biases connoted in these social schemas.

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Neto, Felix. "CONFORMITY AND INDEPENDENCE REVISITED." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 23, no. 3 (January 1, 1995): 217–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.1995.23.3.217.

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This study aimed at investigating whether conformity in the experimental setting suggested by Asch was particularly related to American culture and less likely to be replicable elsewhere - e. g. in Portugal - as has been suggested more recently. Thus, Asch's classic conformity and independence experiment was replicated, using women psychology students in a Portuguese university as minority of one, unanimous majority group, and control Ss. The original procedure was re-enacted as similarly as possible using a computer program. Among “critical” Ss 59% conformed at least once, 28% yielded three to twelve times. Among control Ss 27% erred at least once, 3.3% made more than three errors. These differences between critical and control Ss were significant. Thus, recent university students in Portugal showed that the degree of conformity to a unanimous peer-group opinion remains observable. They reported considerable distress under the group pressure.

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Bártová, Zuzana. "Between strangeness and an alternative Buddhist lifestyle: an expression of religious non-conformity in consumer culture." Religion and society in Central and Eastern Europe 15, no. 1 (December 29, 2022): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.20413/rascee.2022.15.1.57-74.

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This study contributes to the sociological understanding of the social perceptions of religious engagement and its self-presentation in consumer culture. Drawing on three years of comparative ethnographic research on the Buddhist lifestyle in five different organisations in France and the Czech Republic, it reveals that Buddhist engagement, through its practices, is considered peculiar or even potentially dangerous by the participants’ environment. Remarks of the people surrounding them reflect typical features of the popular understanding and the literature on sects, cults and new religious movements and express social pressure to respect different social norms. They also partly represent social demands to adopt a conformist lifestyle because of their often individualised and activity-centred character. At the same time, Buddhist practitioners’ self-presentation of their engagement is in line with alternative lifestyle discourses since it challenges different social practices, forms of sociability, ethics and other values. The importance, diversity and positive image associated with this alternative stance can be considered an expression of the value of non-conformity that reflects the individualism and disdain of conformism typical of consumer culture.

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Parsad, Chandan, Sanjeev Prashar, and Vijay Sai Tata. "Influence of Personality Traits and Social Conformity on Impulsive Buying Tendency." International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences 10, no. 2 (April 2019): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsds.2019040106.

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Employing eight personality traits as suggested by Mowen, this study attempts to decipher the relationships these traits have with social conformity and impulsive buying tendency and between social conformity and impulsive buying tendency within one integrated framework. With data collected from 386 respondents, the article examines the relationship of personality traits using a 3M Model with social conformity and impulsive tendency of shoppers, and also determines the association between normative social influence and instantaneous urge to buy. The findings reveal that personality traits - conscientiousness, materialism and body needs have positive association with social conformity, whereas openness to experience is negatively associated with social conformity. With respect to impulsive buying tendency, neuroticism, materialism and arousal have positive relationships. The results also reflect positive affect of social conformity on impulsive buying tendency. These finding, along with research implications have enhanced the existing literature.

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Hosni, Hykel, and Jeff Paris. "Rationality As Conformity." Synthese 144, no. 2 (March 2005): 249–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-004-4684-1.

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Smaldino, Paul E., and Joshua M. Epstein. "Social conformity despite individual preferences for distinctiveness." Royal Society Open Science 2, no. 3 (March 2015): 140437. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.140437.

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We demonstrate that individual behaviours directed at the attainment of distinctiveness can in fact produce complete social conformity. We thus offer an unexpected generative mechanism for this central social phenomenon. Specifically, we establish that agents who have fixed needs to be distinct and adapt their positions to achieve distinctiveness goals, can nevertheless self-organize to a limiting state of absolute conformity. This seemingly paradoxical result is deduced formally from a small number of natural assumptions and is then explored at length computationally. Interesting departures from this conformity equilibrium are also possible, including divergence in positions. The effect of extremist minorities on these dynamics is discussed. A simple extension is then introduced, which allows the model to generate and maintain social diversity, including multimodal distinctiveness distributions. The paper contributes formal definitions, analytical deductions and counterintuitive findings to the literature on individual distinctiveness and social conformity.

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Mahmoodi, Ali, Hamed Nili, Dan Bang, Carsten Mehring, and Bahador Bahrami. "Distinct neurocomputational mechanisms support informational and socially normative conformity." PLOS Biology 20, no. 3 (March 3, 2022): e3001565. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001565.

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A change of mind in response to social influence could be driven by informational conformity to increase accuracy, or by normative conformity to comply with social norms such as reciprocity. Disentangling the behavioural, cognitive, and neurobiological underpinnings of informational and normative conformity have proven elusive. Here, participants underwent fMRI while performing a perceptual task that involved both advice-taking and advice-giving to human and computer partners. The concurrent inclusion of 2 different social roles and 2 different social partners revealed distinct behavioural and neural markers for informational and normative conformity. Dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) BOLD response tracked informational conformity towards both human and computer but tracked normative conformity only when interacting with humans. A network of brain areas (dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) and temporoparietal junction (TPJ)) that tracked normative conformity increased their functional coupling with the dACC when interacting with humans. These findings enable differentiating the neural mechanisms by which different types of conformity shape social changes of mind.

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Li, Wenbo, Mengzhe Wang, Miao Yu, and Xiao Zheng. "The Impact of Social Conformity on Adopting Decision of Shared Electric Vehicles: A Choice Experiment Analysis in China." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 4 (February 10, 2022): 1955. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19041955.

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Social conformity, a psychological phenomenon commonly shared by most individuals, has long been ignored by studies focusing on influencing preferences for shared electric vehicles (SEVs). To fill this gap, this paper divides social conformity into informational conformity and normative conformity, and analyzes their effects on individuals’ choice of SEVs. Respondents were selected randomly in Jiangsu Province, and the data were collected by the choice experiment method. The data were further analyzed by logit models. Results show that social conformity has a significant positive impact on individuals’ choice of SEVs, and informational conformity has a much more profound impact than normative conformity. The driving cost and the convenience of picking up and returning a vehicle also influence consumers’ preferences. In addition, social conformity cannot totally dispel the negative impact of poor experience. Finally, some targeted policy recommendations are proposed.

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Chao, Yihao. "Social Identity and Group Conformity in Virtual Environment." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 22 (November 26, 2023): 581–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v22i.13065.

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This review firstly summarized the past study of social identity and group conformity and states the importance of investigating their relationship in virtual environment. It can help produce better policy to improve the online environment and help people make better decisions when they are facing the norms of their groups. It then explained the relationship through multiple aspects. The first one is the negative influences of social identity and the mechanisms of group conformity related to it, and the review then demonstrated the advantages of social norms in two ways. The review concluded that virtual environment promotes social identity and leads to group conformity, which has both positive and negative effects. The level of conformity can be influenced by several traits of the group and other members. The limitations were discussed, including the homogeneity of the form of the studies and the lack of diversity in nations during the selection of the participants. Lastly, further studies of the influences of cultures and ideologies of the participants’ society and recent moods on the relationship between group conformity and social identity were suggested.

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Cheung, Hoiching Sisney, Rui Liu, and Jingjing Zhao. "Face-to-Face Environment on Social Conformity." Lecture Notes in Education Psychology and Public Media 3, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 991–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7048/3/2022559.

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According to Oh Se Hyung, the difference between Collectivism culture and Individualist culture have been greatly diverted. In this paper, the experiment will prove this view and explore new factors leading to the difference of Collectivism and Individualism on Social Conformity, by testing the influences of face-to-face environment on the level of social conformity across culture.

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Myropoltseva, Nina, and Olga Amplieieva. "Influence of Social Networks on the Transformation of Youth Values in Social Isolation." Postmodern Openings 12, no. 4 (December 17, 2021): 89–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.18662/po/12.4/362.

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The decline in live social contact during the Covid-19 pandemic is driving an increase in the demand for social media communication. This study is an in-depth continuation of an earlier study on the topic of self-esteem and value orientations of youth. A survey was conducted and helped to determine the values of life that are broadcast on social media profiles and are actively welcomed by students in Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Tik Tok: independence, high aspirations, health and beauty, material values. The high level of activity of the respondents in social networks was investigated and the medium level of Internet addiction was determined. The respondents revealed the level of conformity and individual-typological personality traits. The students are characterized by a high level of anxiety and tension. The conformity level helps to identify the individuals who are most vulnerable to the effects of social media. The terminal and instrumental values of students are investigated: health and beauty, material values, entertainment, family life, self-confidence, love, freedom, rationalism, Irreconcilability to shortcomings, independence, self-control and high claims. Correlation links were found in the indicators of conformism / nonconformism / Internet addiction and value orientations of the individual. Work in groups was carried out with the aim of abandoning a set of social masks, selected taking into account the expectations of others. The work is based on the metaphor of diminution from Slavic myths and fairy tales.

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Kang, Sungmin, and Younkue Na. "A Study on Conformity Appeal Attributes and Social Contagion of Beauty-Focused One-Person Media in Sustainable E-Commerce." Sustainability 14, no. 10 (May 20, 2022): 6226. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14106226.

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In the beauty industry, the use of one-person media is making new, more active relationships that differ from those of past online services and information sharing. Therefore, in this study, we developed conformity appeal attributes in one-person media, identifying their effects on information diffusion behavior through social conformity and collaborative innovation networks, to investigate the social contagion effect of information in beauty-focused one-person media and develop a model by connecting them to the conformity threshold of individuals influenced by others. In this study, a total of 694 complete samples of experienced consumers in the beauty-focused one-person media category were selected, and research questions were verified through reliability and validity tests, path analysis, and measurement model analysis. The research results are as follows. First, conformity appeal attributes of beauty-focused one-person media in terms of information cascade, utility value efficiency, reference group influence, and subnetwork structure significantly affected social imitation conformity. However, only subnetwork structure significantly affected social connection conformity. Similarly, only reference group influence and subnetwork structure significantly affected social comparative conformity. Second, social imitation conformity, social connection conformity, and social comparative conformity in beauty-focused one-person media significantly affected cocreation. Third, cocreation in beauty-focused one-person media significantly affected information diffusion behavior. The detailed use of the conformity appeal attribute factors shown in the above results will be combined with functional changes for online and mobile services of beauty companies, and it will be a driving force to create new value for the network. Moreover, the results of this study not only enable social connection among members within the reference group of beauty-focused one-person media but are also applied as an effective phenomenon to explain the continuous maintenance, reinforcement, and expansion of these relationships, thereby enabling researchers to achieve theoretical expansion and evaluation of relevant variables.

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Hatcher, Joe W., Samuel Cares, Rachel Detrie, Tessa Dillenbeck, Emma Goral, Katlyn Troisi, and Angela M. Whirry-Achten. "Conformity, arousal, and the effect of arbitrary information." Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 21, no. 4 (October 20, 2016): 631–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430216670525.

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Four studies were conducted to better understand the relationship between arousal, conformity, and the influence of arbitrary and genuine social information. Experiment 1 found that conforming to an apparently genuine majority led to lower levels of autonomic arousal than did independence. Experiment 2 replicated the same findings under nonrealistic conditions in which the experimenter, in front of the participant, told the majority which response to give, thus removing social information from the response. Experiment 3 used arousal-based reasoning to predict that if disagreeing with a majority leads to higher arousal than conformity, even when majority responses contain no social information, participants will conform to majority responses under those same conditions, which was supported. Experiment 4 attempted to broaden our understanding of how arbitrary and real majority responses affect conformity by varying the size of the majority and whether majority responses were arbitrary or genuine. Responses were significantly influenced in all experimental conditions, thus replicating Experiment 3, but more influence occurred with a larger majority that appeared to be giving genuine responses. Our findings expand our understanding of the factors involved in the typical conformity situation by showing that the responses given by the majority affect conformity, whether or not they are genuine, though genuineness adds to the effect with a group size of 3. Also, we argue that taking an arousal-based view provides a way of viewing these results as part of a broader homeostatic behavioral system, although the compatibility of the results with other approaches is acknowledged.

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Avtgis, Theodore A. "Locus of Control and Persuasion, Social Influence, and Conformity: A Meta-Analytic Review." Psychological Reports 83, no. 3 (December 1998): 899–903. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.83.3.899.

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This study is a meta-analytic review of studies on the average effect size for internal and external locus of control with persuasability, social influence, and conformity. Most research indicates that those who score higher on external locus of control tend to be more easily persuaded, socially influenced, and conforming than those who score as internal in locus of control. Therefore, it was hypothesized that people who score as external in locus of control will be more persuaded and more socially influenced and they conformed more than those scoring higher as internal in locus of control. A test of homogeneity indicated no significant differences among results of the studies included in this analysis. The average correlation was .37 for the relationship between scores of internal and external locus of control measured by various generalized locus of control measures with scores on persuasion, social influence, and conformity.

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