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What is conformity?
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Changing behaviour or beliefs to match a group.
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Normative or informational?
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To be accepted, or because the group seems right.
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What is pluralistic ignorance?
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Most privately disagree but think others agree.
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What did Prentice and Miller find?
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Students followed a drinking norm they wrongly imagined.
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How can conformity change a group?
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Correct a false norm.
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