Conformity

Sherif, M. (1935). A study of some social factors in perception. Archives of Psychology, 27 (187), pp.17-22.

Asch, S.E. (1951). Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgment. In H. Guetzkow (ed.) Groups, leadership and men. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Press.
Asch, S.E. (1955). Opinions and social pressure. Scientific American, 193 (5), pp.31-35.

Berns, G.S., Chappelow, J., Zink, C.F., Pagnoni, G., Martin-Skurski, M.E., and Richards, J. (2005) Neurobiological Correlates of Social Conformity and Independence During Mental Rotation. Biological Psychiatry, 58 (3), pp.245-253.

Weaver, K., Garcia, S.M., Schwarz, N., & Miller, D.T. (2007) Inferring the popularity of an opinion from its familiarity: A repetitive voice can sound like a chorus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92 (5), pp.821-833.

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[iisadoraf]

theis funny publicity ahahah is just complete trash can we end this pretty plz?

[Leviathon672015]

God damn, your videos are well made...

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[Roberto Garcia]

Maybe i could just start by not conforming just to perception and start using science, like standing up and messuring the lines myself. But maybe if i don't do that is because i'm comforming not my perception or judment but my assertion, the fact that to me it looks a certain way.

[Gammel Prutte]

There's the jury system gone up in smoke :)

[Scot Campbell]

Although most people find it very uncomfortable to stand out and risk looking foolish, it is my greatest fear to appear normal and risk just fitting in...and my greatest joy is to stand out and look foolish.

[Daniel Lassander]

yes you are right, i know conformity worked for me cause i had read the whole thing but with almost everyone around me doing these things, i felt that i was wrong somehow so i got up and started following these steps. im fairly certain that we the first 5 people to dont do anything, read the whole test but i dont know for certain about the others.

[Amy Robinson]

I also did this test. I think you should take into account that it may not be conformity that makes people do this, but the fact that they didn't actually read all of the questions...

[Daniel Lassander]

at the end of the test there were only 2 people that sat down. after around 5 minutes the first person gave in to conformity, and started following steps 2-14 in the test he also said in the middle of a group that all followed the steps, i soon conformed too and did what they did. the only 2 persons that didnt conform sat next to each other and talked. while the rest of the class just did idiotic things.