A new study looks at the impact of group conformity on task performance in various environments and leverages insights from cultural evolution, social learning, and social psychology to experimentally ...

What causes individuals to conform to the opinions and judgments of others? Why do they need to? When is it an advantage to merge with the group and when is it not? Investigating the social, ...

If you have ever sat in a business meeting and watched a group coalesce around a false premise or a bad decision, you might be interested to know that conformity in groups is a common experience and ...

Illustrating an intellectual confusion common on campuses, Vanderbilt University says: To ensure "diversity of thought and opinion," we require certain student groups, including five religious ones, ...

Negro and White children at ages 7, 9, 12, and 15 years were subjected to simulated group pressures. Two criteria of conformity were employed in a multiple regression technique. The main effect ...

There’s nothing unusual about the need to go along with the group. Evolutionists think that it offers a survival advantage, creating a uniform herd that’s less susceptible to dangers. But when it ...