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Conformity bias is a tendency to behave similarly to the others in a group, even if doing so goes against your own judgment.

Blog posts

  • Asch's Conformity Experiment
  • Lonely Dissent
  • On Expressing Your Concerns
  • Undiscriminating Skepticism

See also

  • Affective death spiral
  • Groupthink
  • In-group bias
  • Improper belief
  • Akrasia
  • Death Spirals and the Cult Attractor
Posts tagged Conformity Bias
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163Lonely Dissent
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17y
91
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93The Unilateralist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good
David Hornbein
5y
16
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68Asch's Conformity Experiment
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17y
67
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62On Expressing Your Concerns
Eliezer Yudkowsky
17y
38
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62Asches to Asches
Scott Alexander
11y
0
2
48The File Drawer Effect and Conformity Bias (Election Edition)
Salemicus
10y
25
2
44Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum
alyssavance
13y
53
2
28Variation on conformity experiment
[anonymous]14y
8
2
17Are mass hallucinations a real thing?
Scott Alexander
14y
10
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16[Link] Contesting the “Nature” Of Conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo's Studies Really Show
[anonymous]12y
7
2
14Conformity
Douglas_Reay
12y
3
2
13Notes on Respect-for-Others
David Gross
4y
1
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12A study in Science on memory conformity
dvasya
13y
0
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7Asch Conformity Could Explain the Conjunction Fallacy
curi
4y
1
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8Overcorrecting in AGI Timeline Forecasts in the current AI boom
Heramb
2y
3
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