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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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86The Unilateralist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good
David Hornbein
3y
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132Lonely Dissent
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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56Asch's Conformity Experiment
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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51Asches to Asches
Scott Alexander
9y
0
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50On Expressing Your Concerns
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
37
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48The File Drawer Effect and Conformity Bias (Election Edition)
Salemicus
8y
25
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45Why Academic Papers Are A Terrible Discussion Forum
alyssavance
11y
53
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28Variation on conformity experiment[anonymous]13y
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17Are mass hallucinations a real thing?
Scott Alexander
13y
10
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16[Link] Contesting the “Nature” Of Conformity: What Milgram and Zimbardo's Studies Really Show[anonymous]11y
7
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14Conformity
Douglas_Reay
11y
3
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12A study in Science on memory conformity
dvasya
12y
0
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7Asch Conformity Could Explain the Conjunction Fallacy
curi
3y
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12Notes on Respect-for-Others
David Gross
3y
1
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5The Hidden Origins of Ideas
cleonid
14y
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