Conformity
One of the major ideas of social psychology is conformity. Conformity is defined as "behavior in accordance with socially accepted conventions or standards". These socially accepted behaviors can range from things like shaking hands when you meet someone, making eye contact, flushing the toilet, or even respecting other's personal space. But why we follow these social norms is what social psychology seeks to understand. Following social norms and interacting with those and the world around us it the very base if everything that we do, so understanding and learning about this will give me a better understanding of the world and I personally believe that a better understanding of the world is what life is all about. Thats absolutely why the study of social psychology is so important to me. I also think that this topic is very interesting and fun to talk about because there are very many cool experiments and examples where we are able to observe people's behavior and I will share a few of the clips to these conformity testing experiments so you can enjoy them as I have.
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