The Dynamics of Conformity The pressure to conform is the underlying dynamic of belonging to a group. If you don’t conform you soon become part of an out-group or shift to another in-group. In-groupness and out-groupness is a foundational study in Social Psychology ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIh4MkcfJA ). The trade-off for in-groupness is conformity and the by-product […]
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Conforming and Questioning in Safety
Cass Sunstein’s tidy little book Conformity (2019) raises many issues that people in safety need to think about. The book starts by discussing the many social influences that affect decision making, demonstrating that the simplistic ideas of BBS and zero are nonsense. I have mapped many of these social influences here as a free […]
