PSYCH253 Lecture Notes - Asch Conformity Experiments, Stationary Point, Chameleon
16 Oct 2011
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Conformity: a change in behaviour or belief to accord with others. Conformity can be bad when it leads someone to drink and drive or join in racist behaviour. Conformity can be good when it inhibits people from cutting in front of a line at the theatres. Conformity can be inconsequential when it disposes tennis players to wear white. Conformity is not just acting as other people act it is also being affected by how they act. It is acting differently from the way you would act alone. There are several varieties of conformity: compliance, obedience, acceptance. Sometimes, we conform to an expectation or request without really believing in what we are doing. Compliance: conformity that involves publicly acting in accord with social pressure while privately disagreeing. Obedience: acting in accord with a direct order. Acceptance: conformity that involves both acting and believing in accord with social pressure.
