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Conformity: Following What Others Do

  • Groupthink: Caving in to Conformity
  • Compliance: Submitting to Direct Social Pressure

    Obedience: Following Direct Orders


    Key concepts for Module 44:



    Define social influence and conformity, and describe the factors that influence conformity.

    Define compliance, and describe how the foot-in-the-door technique, the door-in-the-face technique, and other sales tactics lead to compliance.

    Describe Milgram’s study of obedience to authority and its results.







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