Quantifying compliance and acceptance through public and private social conformity

• Published in: Consciousness and cognition Vol. 65; pp. 359 - 367
• Main Authors: Sowden, Sophie, Koletsi, Sofia, Lymberopoulos, Eva, Militaru, Elisabeta, Catmur, Caroline, Bird, Geoffrey
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.10.2018; Elsevier BV; Academic Press
• Subjects: Acceptance; Between-subjects design; Compliance; Conformity; Influence; Informational influence; Normative influence; Social conformity; Informational influence; Acceptance; Compliance; Normative influence; Social conformity

•Most measures of social conformity conflate compliance and acceptance.•Compliance occurs when individuals conform in public, but not in private.•Acceptance occurs when group influence is internalised, in private and in public.•Our task reveals the presence of compliance and acceptance on a within-s...