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Conformity
Entries tagged conformity.
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Thought experiment
Asch's Conformity Experiments
Solomon Asch's line-judgment studies, showing that people will call an obviously wrong answer right to avoid standing alone against a unanimous group, and that a single dissenter breaks the spell.
8 min
ConceptGroupthink
Irving Janis's theory that tight-knit, high-esteem groups under stress suppress dissent to preserve unanimity, and decide worse for it.
9 min