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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
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