Conformity of responses among graduate students in an online environment

Beran, Tanya; Drefs, Michelle; Kaba, Alyshah; Albaz, Noof; Harbi, Nouf Al

doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2015.01.001

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“…Many reasons have been suggested as to why people “go along with” information they consider incorrect. These include the desire to be seen as knowledgeable and competent during evaluation, a need to gain group membership, and a quick response to time pressure [ 12 , 30 ]. Anecdotally, residents are known to strive at developing mastery and establishing their role within a time constrained medical system.…”

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“…Level of education, while related to age, may also be relevant. It is plausible that students with less knowledge and experience are more likely to conform than more senior students, perhaps due to self-doubt and limited mastery [ 12 ]. Also, residents who are international medical graduates (IMGs) may feel greater pressure to belong, and, thus, conform more than local graduates [ 14 ].…”

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Experiences of pressure to conform in postgraduate medical education

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BackgroundPerception of pressure to conform prevents learners from actively participating in educational encounters. We expected that residents would report experiencing different amounts of pressure to conform in a variety of educational settings.MethodsA total of 166 residents completed questionnaires about the frequency of conformity pressure they experience across 14 teaching and clinical settings. We examined many individual characteristics such as their age, sex, international student status, level of education, and tolerance of ambiguity; and situational characteristics such as residency program, type of learning session, status of group members, and type of rotation to determine when conformity pressure is most likely to occur.ResultsThe majority of participants (89.8%) reported pressure to conform at least sometimes in at least one educational or clinical setting. Residents reported higher rates of conformity during informal, rather than formal, teaching sessions, p < .001. Also, pressure was greater when residents interacted with higher status group members, but not with the same or lower level status members, p < .001. Effect sizes were in the moderate range.ConclusionsThe findings suggest that most residents do report feeling pressure to conform in their residency settings. This result is consistent with observations of medical students, nursing students, and clerks conforming in response to inaccurate information within experimental studies. Perception of pressure is associated with the setting rather than the trainee personal characteristics.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (10.1186/s12909-017-1108-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Experiences of pressure to conform in postgraduate medical education

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“…With no constraints, the interaction between the majority and minority will remain on the majority side of the issue, with exception of no minority position, which would be more extreme (Latané & Wolf, 1981). Social presence as social pressures could exert influence in face-to-face events (Beran et al, 2015). When people are being compared to peers or they compare themselves to their peers, their groups or their surroundings, their behaviors tend to change and they conform to their surroundings by following the choice of others (Afonasova et al, 2019;Chen & Lu, 2015;Goethals & Darley, 1987;Levine, 1983;Zafar, 2011).…”

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“…Conformity happens when one responses to the information around him by matching the group's opinion. (Beran, Drefs, Kaba, Al Baz, & Al Harbi, 2015). The study of Conformity has gone a very long way beginning in 1935, M Sherif studied cases of individual differences in response to social environment where each individual has different ways of perceiving social situations due to own personal habits.…”

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Taking Advantage of Social Conformity in Entrepreneurship

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2020

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Objective – To increase firm performance, the stakeholders have been striving and working hard to achieve company goals. Prior research on entrepreneurship theories and influencing factors have been abundant especially in the sensemaking of the current dynamic environment and disruptive innovations. Social conformity is an act of following the majority in order to be liked, to be accepted or due to the group pressure. The literatures on social conformity mostly are in journals of psychology and very limited number of these journals are in the field of entrepreneurship. Methodology/Technique – This paper aims to examine the effects of social conformity hereinafter refer to purchase conformity and the factors influencing the purchase conformity to boost sales rate, namely social status, social influence, social ties and social comparison using the mixed-method methodology on 86 adult respondents located in Jakarta. Findings – The result shows that the social comparison has the biggest influence compared to social influence and social ties. Conformity in a deeper sense can benefit the company by predicting the future trend of the majority. Novelty – The ability to predict or even create the majority trend before the trend hits will boost the sales rate and give more competitive advantages to the company. Future research should address the individual psychological factors and the strategies of the firm to increase purchase conformity. Type of Paper: Empirical Keywords: Social Conformity; Social Ties; Social Comparison; Social Status; Purchase Conformity Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Princes E.; Manurung, A. H., 2020. Taking Advantage of Social Conformity in Entrepreneurship, J. Mgt. Mkt. Review, 5(1) 64 – 73. https://doi.org/10.35609/jmmr.2020.5.1(6) JEL Classification: M31, M21.

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“…Jednotlivec naráža na konfl ikt medzi vlastným úsilím, v snahe preukázať odborné znalosti a potrebou vytvoriť dobré vzťahy medzi kolegami (spolužiakmi). (Janis, in Beran et al 2015).…”

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Konformné správanie študentov v akademickom prostredí

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2017

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Article deals with definition of conformity and presentation of results of research of conformal behaviour of University of Zilina students. Aim of research was confirmation of presumption, that conformal or no conformal behaviour of students is affected by season of university study. Results of research showed significant differences between answers of men and women. Woman tend to be more conformal and men tend to by less conformal. Then the article presents analysis of sex as determinant of conformal behaviour. Besides that, we tested also relations between several phenomena. Our assumptions were formulated into hypotheses, which were statistically tested. Chi square was applied to determine relationship between selected phenomena. Then the quality of relations was tested by correlation coefficient (Phi-coefficient, Cramer V-coefficient). Extremely strong correlation did prove in neither case, but we identified two cases of moderate to substantial correlations.

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Conformity of responses among graduate students in an online environment

Cited by 33 publications

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Experiences of pressure to conform in postgraduate medical education

Experiences of pressure to conform in postgraduate medical education

Taking Advantage of Social Conformity in Entrepreneurship

Konformné správanie študentov v akademickom prostredí

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