At some point, everyone has done something weird to fit in. Maybe you have lied about your favorite guilty pleasure song to avoid public shame. Maybe you owned seven pairs of bell bottoms in the ’70s ...

Every day we try to fit in. We may like to think we're individual but most of the time we don't actually want to stand out too much. It's this idea of conformity that the American social psychologist ...

Social pressure can sometimes lead us to change our behavior, a process known as conformity. This can sometimes be overt, like being pressured to behave in a certain way, or a more subtle influence ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. One of the most famous experiments in social psychology took place in the early 1950s. Solomon Asch, a ...

At some point, everyone has done something weird to fit in. Maybe you have lied about what your favorite guilty pleasure song is to avoid public shame. Maybe you owned seven pairs of bell bottoms in ...