Aspects of a person's beliefs, feelings, or behaviour that are due to the influence of other people. Experimental findings about the power of such influence cast doubt on beliefs about the self-determination of individual behaviour.
Conformity is distinguished from obedience by being imitation, often of equals.
The conformer feels he or she is acting voluntarily, whereas obedience is a response to a superior's explicit command and therefore comparatively involuntary. The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology 2. Conformity Bloomsbury Thesaurus 3. Conformity Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations 4. All rights reserved.