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Conformity & Obedience to Authority.
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Conformity & Obedience to Authority * Conformity focuses upon the ways in which other people exert their influence upon us in such a way that we go along with them. For example some teenagers may go along with what their friends do when they themselves would have preferred to have gone elsewhere. * Conformity normally involves some kind of social pressure in which the individuals intentions conflict with those of the groups. This kind of social pressure is known as conformity. Below are three definitions of conformity. They all have a common theme; that other people bring about a change in an individual or at least induce a situation of conflict. "A change in a persons behaviour or opinions as a result of real or imagined Pressure from a person or group of people." Aronson (1998) "Yielding to a group pressures or expectations." Crutchfield (1995) "The tendency to allow ones opinions,...
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