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Con­for­mity Bias

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Conformity bias is a tendency to behave similarly to the others in a group, even if doing so goes against your own judgment.

Blog posts

See also

Lonely Dissent

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Dec 2007 4:23 UTC
162 points
91 comments4 min readLW link

The Unilat­er­al­ist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good

David Hornbein13 Apr 2020 22:48 UTC
93 points
16 comments2 min readLW link

Asch Con­for­mity Could Ex­plain the Con­junc­tion Fallacy

curi6 Aug 2020 21:46 UTC
7 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Vari­a­tion on con­for­mity experiment

[deleted]6 Nov 2010 18:24 UTC
28 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Conformity

Douglas_Reay2 Nov 2012 19:02 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Con­test­ing the “Na­ture” Of Con­for­mity: What Mil­gram and Zim­bardo’s Stud­ies Really Show

[deleted]2 Dec 2012 23:45 UTC
16 points
7 comments1 min readLW link

A study in Science on mem­ory conformity

dvasya15 Jul 2011 17:30 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

The File Drawer Effect and Con­for­mity Bias (Elec­tion Edi­tion)

Salemicus8 May 2015 16:51 UTC
48 points
25 comments1 min readLW link

Are mass hal­lu­ci­na­tions a real thing?

Scott Alexander3 Oct 2010 20:15 UTC
17 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Notes on Re­spect-for-Others

David Gross12 Nov 2020 23:33 UTC
13 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

Asch’s Con­for­mity Experiment

Eliezer Yudkowsky26 Dec 2007 7:03 UTC
68 points
67 comments4 min readLW link

Why Aca­demic Papers Are A Ter­rible Dis­cus­sion Forum

alyssavance20 Jun 2012 18:15 UTC
44 points
53 comments6 min readLW link

On Ex­press­ing Your Concerns

Eliezer Yudkowsky27 Dec 2007 4:04 UTC
62 points
38 comments3 min readLW link

Asches to Asches

Scott Alexander4 Jun 2014 2:16 UTC
61 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Over­cor­rect­ing in AGI Timeline Fore­casts in the cur­rent AI boom

Heramb10 Apr 2023 16:43 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

The Modern Prob­lems with Conformity

Zero Contradictions13 Jul 2024 8:20 UTC
0 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(expandingrationality.substack.com)

The Hid­den Ori­gins of Ideas

cleonid28 Mar 2009 2:27 UTC
5 points
7 comments1 min readLW link
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