Conformity: The Types Of Social Influence Of Conformity

Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group.

Conformity can also be simply defined as “yielding to group pressures” (Crutchfield, 1955). Group pressure may take different forms, for example bullying, persuasion, teasing, criticism, etc. Conformity is also known as majority influence (or group pressure).

The term conformity is often used to indicate an agreement to the majority position, brought about either by a desire to ‘fit in’ or be liked (normative) or because of a desire to be correct (informational), or simply to conform to a social role (identification). (https://simplypsychology.org/conformity.html)

I have personally experienced conformity when a group of friends have asked me to go out for food, I knew I

People sometimes believe that because everyone else has said it then the answer must be right. One limitation to the study is that he used all males, this does not show what the results would be in a mixed group of males and females or if the group was all female. This study has low ecological validity because it was a controlled experiment, this did not happen in a real life scenario where nobody was told to give the incorrect answer it does not show what would happen if this would be tested off a different group of people.

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Obedience is a form of social influence that involves performing an action under the orders of an authority figure. It differs from compliance (which involves changing your behavior at the request of another person) and conformity (which involves altering your behavior in order to go along with the rest of the group). Instead, obedience involves altering your behavior because a figure of authority has told you to.