Social Conformity

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Children conform to the behavior of peers; other great apes stick with what they know. 
  • Children's perceptions of deviance and disorder. 
  • Conforming to coordinate: children use majority information for peer coordination. 
  • Conformity development as a function of self-blame. 
  • Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children. 
  • Developmental trajectories of boys' and girls' delinquency: sex differences and links to later adolescent outcomes. 
  • Impact of perceived consensus on stereotypes about obese people: a new approach for reducing bias. 
  • Religious affiliation and psychiatric disorder among Protestant baby boomers. 
  • Religious practices and alcoholism in a southern adult population. 
  • Taming the wilderness: the lifestyle improvement movement in rural Japan, 1925-1965. 
  • The role of social norms and friends' influences on unhealthy weight-control behaviors among adolescent girls. 
  • The sources of normativity: young children's awareness of the normative structure of games. 
  • Young Children Understand the Role of Agreement in Establishing Arbitrary Norms-But Unanimity Is Key.