SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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A change in behavior or belief as to the result of real or imagined group pressure.
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Involves both actings and believing in accord with social pressure.
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Involves publicly acting in accord with an implied or explicit request while privately disagreeing.
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Complying with a direct command.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Conformity = A change in behavior or belief as a result of real or imagined group pressure. A. Compliance. Publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing.
Detailed explanation-2: -conformity, the process whereby people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions to more closely match those held by groups to which they belong or want to belong or by groups whose approval they desire.
Detailed explanation-3: -Harvard psychologist Herbert Kelman identified three major types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalization. Compliance is public conformity, while possibly keeping one’s own original beliefs independent.
Detailed explanation-4: -There are three types of conformity: compliance, identification and internalisation.
Detailed explanation-5: -Succumbing to peer pressure could lead to risky or illegal behavior, such as underage drinking. Or, conformity might lead to a bystander effect, in which going along with the group means failing to act when someone is in need. A desire to conform might also limit your openness to new ideas or arguments.