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conformity

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Conformity Bias

The pull to adjust your beliefs, behaviours, or opinions to match those of the group around you.

When the desire for harmony in a group overrides honest analysis, leading to poor decisions nobody individually would have made.

When everyone privately disagrees with something but goes along with it because they assume everyone else agrees.

The tendency for people to stay silent when they believe their opinion is in the minority, causing that opinion to seem even rarer than it is.

When culture is mass-produced to pacify rather than challenge, turning art and entertainment into instruments of conformity.