PSYCH 2C03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Candid Camera, Binge Drinking, Peer Pressure

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2C03
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

Document Summary

Conformity is viewed as bad in western culture, weak. Fear of being ostracized, in evolutionary history if you were ostracized you would have died. Even fringe groups conform with one another. Even when conforming makes us look strange or silly. Peer pressure in the elevator - candid camera - all stand backwards and eventually so do the subjects. The bigger the size of the group performing a singular act the more likely others will join them. The need to conform can affect our behaviour in all sorts of different ways. Two con men says they have a fabric so beautiful that only people intelligent and discerning enough can even see or feel them. Afraid to look stupid if he can"t see the fabric, same with the townspeople. Except for a little kid who says the emperor"s naked, seeds of dissent and conformity disintegrates. E. x. binge drinking, no . i don"t want dessert if no one else is ordering it.