Adopting a person by situation interaction approach, we identified conditions under which conformity pressure can either stifle or boost group creativity depending on the joint effects of norm content and group personality composition.
"There is a great deal of conformity under way, actually," he added.
The hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin promotes in-group favoritism, elicits parochial altruism, and stimulates in-group conformity under explicit social pressure.
The entrepreneurial-minded on both the creative and business sides of advertising also contend that the expansion of agency companies has smothered originality under a blanket of conformity.
In the God-forsaken 1950 film "The Next Voice You Hear" (deemed by the powerful gossip columnist Hedda Hopper "the worst picture ever made"), God miraculously lectures via the radio to James Whitmore -- before he went from religion to Miracle-Gro -- on the wisdom of knuckling under to cold war conformity: "You're like children going to school -- you've forgotten some of your lessons".
To enhance the presentation of the entire (voluminous) data, in these two figures many Bacteria and Archaea are grouped under common headings, in conformity with the presentation in the complete (unabbreviated) LysRS2 and LysRS1 ML trees, given as SM, additional files 3 and 4 respectively.
Over the longer term, Iran will be brought into full conformity with its obligations under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty only under a new and more moderate regime.
But the notion that this can be brought under control by imposing secular conformity on students is flawed and dangerous.
Mr Mbeki has now stopped espousing his dreadful view that AIDS is not caused by a virus, but still shows little enthusiasm for the anti-AIDS measures that almost everyone believes are needed.The archbishop complainsThe biggest row, however, came in November, when Archbishop Desmond Tutu dared point out that a culture of "sycophantic, obsequious conformity" is emerging under Mr Mbeki.
Just a few years back, former Yale University professor William Deresiewicz turned op-eds into a book marketing his disdain for the conformity of undergrads under the label "excellent sheep".
