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Awe and social conformity: Awe promotes the endorsement of social norms and conformity to the majority opinion.

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recommendations! Published in 2023 at "Emotion"

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

Caregivers’ Social Conformity Predicts Their Judgments of Toddlers’ Moral Agency

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recommendations! Published in 2024 at "Early Education and Development"

DOI: 10.1080/10409289.2024.2389366

Abstract: ABSTRACT Research Findings: Social constructivist theories have proposed that caregivers’ perceptions of children as morally responsible agents are an important factor in children’s moral development. However, there is substantial variance in caregivers’ ascriptions of moral… read more here.

Keywords: moral reactions; moral agency; caregivers social; social conformity ... See more keywords

In God we trust? Neural measures reveal lower social conformity among non-religious individuals

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recommendations! Published in 2017 at "Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience"

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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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences"

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
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Sectarianism and Social Conformity: Evidence from Egypt

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recommendations! Published in 2017 at "Political Research Quarterly"

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

Social conformity is a heuristic when individual risky decision-making is disrupted

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recommendations! Published in 2024 at "PLOS Computational Biology"

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012602

Abstract: When making risky choices in social contexts, humans typically combine social information with individual preferences about the options at stake. It remains unknown how such decisions are made when these preferences are inaccessible or disrupted,… read more here.

Keywords: social conformity; decision making; utility based; decision ... See more keywords

Regimes of Expectations: An Active Inference Model of Social Conformity and Human Decision Making

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recommendations! Published in 2019 at "Frontiers in Psychology"

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
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The Impact of Social Conformity on Adopting Decision of Shared Electric Vehicles: A Choice Experiment Analysis in China

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recommendations! Published in 2022 at "International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health"

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

Mathematical Theory of Social Conformity I: Belief Dynamics, Propaganda Limits, and Learning Times in Networked Societies

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recommendations! Published in 2025 at "Mathematics"

DOI: 10.3390/math13101625

Abstract: This paper develops a novel probabilistic theory of belief formation in social networks, departing from classical opinion dynamics models in both interpretation and structure. Rather than treating agent states as abstract scalar opinions, we model… read more here.

Keywords: conformity belief; theory social; social conformity; mathematical theory ... See more keywords