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Section 3

Social Influence

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Group Behavior

Groups influence individual decision-making processes in a variety of ways, such as groupthink, groupshift, and deindividuation.

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Obedience

Obedience is a form of social influence that occurs when a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure.

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Compliance

"Compliance" refers to a response, specifically a submission, made in reaction to an implicit or explicit request.

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Conformity

In psychology, conformity is defined as the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.

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