ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Increased Conformity to Social Hierarchy Under Public Eyes.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Love, Compassion, and Personality as Predictors of Burnout in Nurses: A Path Analysis Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Impression management in distributive justice: balancing fairness and social perception.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Social observation differentially affects prosocial learning of selfish and prosocial people.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The Relationship Between Face-Based First Impressions and Perceptions of Purity and Compared to Other Moral Violations.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Social status mediates the propagation of unfairness.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Distinctive Roles of Medial Prefrontal Cortex Subregions in Strategic Conformity to Social Hierarchy.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Why would people conform more to others with higher social positions? People may place higher confidence in the opinions of those who rank higher in the social hierarchy, or they may wish to make better impressions on people of higher social status. We investigated how individual preferences for novel stimuli are influenced by the preferences of others in the social hierarchy and whether anonymity affects such preference changes. After manipulation of their social rank, participants were asked to indicate how much they liked or disliked a series of images. Then, they were shown the rating given to each image by a partner (either inferior or superior in social rank) and were given a chance to adjust their ratings. The participants were more likely to change their preferences to match those of a superior partner in the public vs. private condition. The tendency to conform to the views of the superior partner was stronger among those with higher social dominance orientation (SDO) and those with greater fear of negative evaluation (FNE) by others. Altogether, the findings suggest that the motivation to make better impressions on people of higher social status can be the major driver of conformity to others with higher social positions.
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