Jake Desyllas recently invited me on The Voluntary Life Podcast to discuss conformity. Topics covered include:-How conformity to "normal" spending habits prevents people achieving financial independence -Solomon Asch's conformity experiments and what we can learn from them -How conformity can alter your perception -The importance of allies in resisting conformity -The role of privacy in reducing conformity -The danger of conforming to a subculture (and still being a conformist) -How exposure to different views can increase your independence of thought Look Closer: Jake's Site: The Voluntary Life - http://www.thevoluntarylife.com/Asch conformity experiments - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experimentsSolomon Asch: Opinions and Social Pressure (1955) - http://www.panarchy.org/asch/social.pressure.1955.htmlMilgram experiment - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experimentNeurobiological Correlates of Social Conformity and Independence During Mental Rotation - http://www.darkcoding.net/research/Berns%20Conformity%20final%20printed…Jake Desyllas on School Sucks Podcast - http://schoolsucksproject.com/tag/jake-desyllas/ Amazon.com Widgets
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