Personal judgments swayed by group opinion, but only for three days
Saturday, May 24, 2014 - 19:04
in Psychology & Sociology
We all want to feel like we're free-thinking individuals, but there's nothing like the power of social pressure to sway an opinion. New research suggests that people do change their own personal judgments so that they fall in line with the group norm, but the change only seems to last about three days.