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    Social Conformity Hypothesis: Participants will act in a certain way/ change their opinion in order to conform to the majority. Social conformity refers to an individual’s change in behaviour, beliefs or feelings to accommodate to the standards of their peers or to conform to social norms. A study carried out in 1932 by Jenness to test social conformity, consisted of 101 psychology students and was an experimental investigation. Students were asked individually how many jellybeans were in a glass

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    of rebelling against the action. Such a simple demonstration creates the realization that conformity and rebellion constantly occur. Conformity and rebellion play a very active role in daily life and decision making that all individuals make. The idea of conformity is a “social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group.” (“What is Conformity?”) People see conformity as being a demonstration

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    John F. Kennedy once said, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” There are countless opinions, studies, and surveys such as these, which contribute a negative gist towards conformity. Most individuals concentrate on how conformity damages, and destructs; and very rarely focus on the constructive and favorable aspects of conformism. No one stops to understand why people conform in the first place. Conformity benefits society in several ways and contradictory to most beliefs

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    changes, everyone is staring at you. The excitement is only distant memories and it makes you uncomfortable and you might even hate the school on first sight. If conformity is put into place, then everyone will be happier and safer. I think conformity helps our society by creating a more harmonized, safer, and a more balanced community. Conformity is better than individualism as in the communities are safer. The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry tells us about their conformitized community. Jonas, on page

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    In today's society , one is either conforming to the social standards or remaing true to ones own beliefs in indivulastic manner. Conformity is the behavior or coordinance with socially accepted convention or standards in society. For example, if a newly made phone was to be sold on the market that attracted a large amount of people or indivuals such as celebrities, more people would go and buy it because it’s more socially acceptable. People are choosing to conform to others standards rather than

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    morning. The types of clothing that people wear and the styles that they want to have put them in what social group " they belong to". As you can see conformity has been around for a long time, since humans have called Earth their home actually but is non conformity a form of conformity? Read on to find out that yes, non conformity is a form of conformity. Today it seems as if the original philosophies of these groups have been forgotten. Their historical records were dirtied over time by the stereotypes

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    CONFORMITY Conformity is changing one’s own behaviour as to more closely match the action of others (Ciccarelli & Meyer, 2006). When one start doing what the majority is doing. Conformity can be affected by group thinking. Group thinking is kind of thinking in which people feel it is more important to maintain the group’s cohesiveness than to consider the facts more realistically (Ciccarelli & Meyer, 2006). Conformity is one of social influence that is investigated by social psychologist, which

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    to others, this is known as conforming. Kelman (1958) argued that there are three types of conformity; internalisation, compliance and identification. A study by Sherif (1935) tested the effects of informational social influence and conformity. Later on, Asch (1951) conducted a research study looking at the effects of normative social influence and conformity on individuals. Zimbardo (1973) studied conformity to social roles in order to demonstrate how certain roles have behaviours expected from society

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    The subject of conformity is considered a primary point of research in social psychology. Many social psychologists throughout history have experimented and evaluated the attributes of conformity, concluding key factors that contribute to conformity. With consideration, it is arguable that culture and group size are two of the most accountable factors in social conformity. Evidently, research in these areas are both highly notable and in abundance; with respect to studies such as the Asch Line Experiment

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    Conformity has been a point of contention for many years in our society. Conformity is an essential elements that help to maintain standard of ethics. Nauture of the job and professionalism aspect are the vital to consider wheather conformity is appropriate for the people to explore their creativity. There are myriad of point of my support in favor of conformity. The most conspicuous one is that in order to be a social, one has to maintain the conformity. This practice leads people to explore their

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