How can understanding conformity help us?
We all will have times where we will be socially influenced into doing something we shouldn’t do. Even something we really don’t want to do. The video of Asch’s conformity experiment shows how easy it is, even when the answer is simple and we know it is wrong.
If this is something that has affected you, you need to understand the power of social influence and be kind to yourself. Know and understand what you did may be wrong. Take the punishment. Learn from it, but do not beat yourself up about it. You are human and it happens. Social influence is powerful and continues to be, whatever your age. Recognising that will help us learn from it; help us potentially resist it the next time around but most importantly it will safeguard our wellbeing.
#bekindtoyourself