Quirk Theory Of Conformity

Conformity is the act of having the same attitude, beliefs, and behavior as a group of people even if the norm isn’t correct. Confirmity can be used in both positive ways. Sometimes it helps unify people and other times it may hold people back from achieving goals. In the aticle In the case for fitting in a group of scientist got a group of people to purposely get an answer wrong and then they put one more person in the group to see is they would go with the crowd or stand out and get it right. conformity stopped many people from choosing the obivously correct and made them go with the crowd. The reason for that is because some people think it's better to go with the crowd and with a larger or greater intellectual title than with your own beliefs even if you’re right. On the second page of the acticle it showed a chart with the total answers of the groups and how many times the person being tested went with the group answer. In the end conformity took it's toll on most of the people being tested. …show more content…
It used famous singer Bruce Springsteen as an example. Bruce was not at all popular in school and grew up to be an amazing musician. Another example of the quirk theory is Steve Jobs one of the richest men to live on planet earth. In school he wasn’ t popular at all but he later turned into one of the most popular and wealthy men on earth. Therefore conformity may not always help you.
In the end conformity turned out to be a negative factor in both of these acticles. For that reason it is important to support your own thoughts and not go with the