Category: Conformity

Social psychology studies how people’s feelings, behaviour and thought are influenced by the presence of others. It examines the different ways in which individuals change their behaviour and ideas to match with the demands of the social group they belong to (conformity), or to execute the order of a person they consider as an authority…

Conformity has been an important topic of interest in the psychological field whereby it suggests human behavior is influenced by the presence of a group due to social pressure. A pioneering piece of research in conformity studies is Asch’s (1952) Line Study, which the paper replicates. It investigates whether people conform to a wrong answer…

Participating in risky behaviors seems to be a component of individualss daily lives, however, adolescence is an especially magnified time for potentially dangerous actions. Such questionable behavior associated with teenagers consists of alcohol and drug use, improvident driving, as well as neglectful sexual actions. These actions are believed to have increased during this period because…

Social Influences: Media, Fashion, and Pop Culture manifest the need for conformity to Societys standards leads to dissatisfaction. Does a collection of individuals create a society? Or does society, itself, make up its individuals? Flashback to hundreds and thousands of years ago when our cavemen ancestors explored the earth without knowledge and intelligence only to…