In this review, we explore the extent to which the recent evidence for conformity in nonhuman animals may alternatively be explained by the animals' preference for social information regardless of the number of individuals demonstrating the respective behaviour.
To him, the children's books and even the essays were not accomplishments but shameful evidence of my lack of conformity to the university's academic ideals.
It is concluded that, though the SIS-M was developed as a unitary measure of conformity, there is also compelling evidence that the SIS-M could be developed as a multi-dimensional measure of distinct, but related, conformity dimensions.
In Israel, at the session the night before, I had listened to an expert in rabbinics, a tall, lean, black-bearded man, wearing a flat-topped black cap, who looked like a rabbi himself, explaining from a study of the photographs of the complete Isaiah scroll that it showed every evidence of having been executed in strict conformity with rabbinical rules.
Our objective was to determine transfusion practices in critically ill patients without evidence of ongoing bleeding to establish our conformity with published guidelines [ 3].
For evidence, revisionists say, look no further than those very experiments that supposedly proved the evils of conformity.
Lab-based research supposedly furnished slam-dunk evidence that, as the social psychologist Solomon Asch put it, "the social process is polluted" by "the dominance of conformity".
But the flipside of conformity is dullness.
