Conformity

toc = Definition: = Changing or adopting a behavior or an attitude in an effort to be consistent with the social norms of a group or the expectations of other people. Gen Psych, Chapter 14, Pg. 446

= Examples: = > Trying to play a song on a musical instrument that you have played plenty of times and forget how to play it when your friends are watching and listening to you.
 * Using the same slang words as other students
 * Having a popular haircut
 * Listening to the same music as your peers
 * Using Facebook because your friends are on it
 * Turning you homework in on time because you are told to
 * Social Norms-the attitudes and standards of behavior expected of members of a particular group



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= Mnemonics: = conformity = con (connection) + form + it; connection of forms of information technology i.e agreement between different formats. C:Changing O:Ones N:Natural F:Form O:on R:reasons M: mitigating I:Individuality T: terminating Y:Yourself

=In the News:= [|Olympics: a celebration of globalized conformity to vulture capitalism] The Olympic Games, particularly the 2012 London Summer Olympiad, are a celebration not of amateur sports and universal human competition but of corporate greed, international conformity to the “new world order,” and global oligarchs and elites.

[|THE PSYCHOLOGY OF REBELLION AND CONFORMITY] We tend to think of "conformity" and "rebellion" as opposite forms of behavior. Yet rebellion and conformity, in their usual form, are actually two sides of the same syndrome. Both are responses to pressure which keep the victim reacting to, and therefore "conforming" to, the pressure source. There is a third way of dealing with pressure that involves neither rebellion nor conformity, which allows a person to fully develop his innate potential, without outside interference.

[|ACIMIT green label bags RINA certificate of conformity] Italian textile machinery industry has become a benchmark in worldwide research for innovative technologies designed to reduce production costs and improve environmental impact. As part of its “Sustainable Technologies” project, Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) firstly created the green label, a certification that aims to identify and render easily comprehensible the energy and environmental performances of textile machinery, in particular by pointing out the quantity of equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide (Carbon Footprint - CFP) produced during the machine’s operation.

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