Conformity - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
Conditions That Strengthen Conformity
one is made to feel competent
group is at least 3 people
group is unanimous
one admires the group's status
one had made no prior commitment
the person is observed
Reasons For Conformity
Normative Social Influence - a person's desire to gain approval or avoid disappointment
Information Social Influence - one's willingness to accept other's opinions about reality
Obedience
Social Facilitation - improved performance of tasks in the presence of others
Social Loafing - tendency for people in a group to exert less effort when pooling efforts toward a common goal than if they were individually accountable
Deindividuation- the loss of self-awareness and self restraint occurring in groups that foster arousal and anonymity
Groupthink - the mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision making group overrides common sense
Self Fulfilling Prophecy - Occurs when one person's belief about another leads one to act in ways that induce the others to appear to confirm the belief
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