Conformity
Συμμόρφωση
Moving your stated position toward the people around you rather than toward the argument. The openness that lets you learn from a room is the same openness that lets the room decide for you, and both of them feel like reasonableness from the inside.
How to spot it
Ask one question after you agree: did I want this before it was suggested to me?
The research behind the term
The term is not our invention. It comes from published research, and what follows is what that research found — our own synthesis of the published abstract, not a translation of the original.
Crone, E. A., & Dahl, R. E. (2012). Understanding Adolescence as a Period of Social-Affective Engagement and Goal Flexibility — doi:10.1038/nrn3313
The authors analyse adolescence as a period of intense biological, cognitive and social change. They explain that brain development during adolescence increases sensitivity to social influences, but at the same time creates great potential for learning and adaptation.
Sources
Every claim on this page maps to published research. The citations link to the original source.
- Crone, E. A., & Dahl, R. E. (2012). Understanding Adolescence as a Period of Social-Affective Engagement and Goal Flexibility — doi:10.1038/nrn3313