Out of curiousity - which university was showing this video? If you take a simple definition of conformity - the act of fitting into the group - then, yes, this is behavioural conformity. Note this is a field experiment. It is not the same as the Asch type studies which were conformity in perceptual judgement.
@freethug I suspect conformity might require a step beyond being curious about what others are staring at, e.g., not only do we all look at the same thing, but we all express the same opinion regarding the thing we're looking at. But then I'm just a speaker of English, not a social psychologist.
Out of curiousity - which university was showing this video? If you take a simple definition of conformity - the act of fitting into the group - then, yes, this is behavioural conformity. Note this is a field experiment. It is not the same as the Asch type studies which were conformity in perceptual judgement.
tallyhorse 3 months ago
When one person is staring at something, other people are curious about what he's looking at. This is "conformity"?
HWingo 2 years ago
@HWingo This is social contagion
blazecubgrl 8 months ago
@HWingo yes this is conformity.
freethug 4 months ago
@freethug I suspect conformity might require a step beyond being curious about what others are staring at, e.g., not only do we all look at the same thing, but we all express the same opinion regarding the thing we're looking at. But then I'm just a speaker of English, not a social psychologist.
HWingo 4 months ago
@HWingo I'm taking a social psychology class right now and this is an example of conformity and our teacher actually showed up this video.
freethug 4 months ago
Lovin it lol
MatthewPalmer1992 2 years ago