Awe and social conformity: Awe promotes the endorsement of social norms and conformity to the majority opinion.
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DOI: 10.1037/emo0001225.supp
Abstract: Given that awe experiences promote collective identity and decrease self-importance, we reasoned that they should lead individuals to be more prone to cherish social conformity value and to adopt conformity behaviors. In two online experiments… read more here.
Keywords: social norms; awe; majority opinion; conformity ... See more keywords
In God we trust? Neural measures reveal lower social conformity among non-religious individuals
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DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsx023
Abstract: Abstract Even in predominantly religious societies, there are substantial individual differences in religious commitment. Why is this? One possibility is that differences in social conformity (i.e. the tendency to think and behave as others do)… read more here.
Keywords: god trust; social conformity; non religious; religious individuals ... See more keywords
Social conformity and propagation of information in collective U-turns of fish schools
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DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.0251
Abstract: Moving animal groups such as schools of fishes or flocks of birds often undergo sudden collective changes of their travelling direction as a consequence of stochastic fluctuations in heading of the individuals. However, the mechanisms… read more here.
Keywords: conformity propagation; social conformity; group; collective turns ... See more keywords
Sectarianism and Social Conformity: Evidence from Egypt
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DOI: 10.1177/1065912917717641
Abstract: Why might citizens adopt exaggerated public antagonism toward outgroups? When this is so, how much do public and private attitudes diverge? I argue that expanding exclusionary rhetoric against outgroups can create social pressures that incentivize… read more here.
Keywords: conformity evidence; social conformity; evidence; sectarianism social ... See more keywords
Regimes of Expectations: An Active Inference Model of Social Conformity and Human Decision Making
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00679
Abstract: How do humans come to acquire shared expectations about how they ought to behave in distinct normalized social settings? This paper offers a normative framework to answer this question. We introduce the computational construct of… read more here.
Keywords: decision; conformity human; social conformity; value ... See more keywords
The Impact of Social Conformity on Adopting Decision of Shared Electric Vehicles: A Choice Experiment Analysis in China
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DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19041955
Abstract: Social conformity, a psychological phenomenon commonly shared by most individuals, has long been ignored by studies focusing on influencing preferences for shared electric vehicles (SEVs). To fill this gap, this paper divides social conformity into… read more here.
Keywords: choice; electric vehicles; conformity; social conformity ... See more keywords