Group* norms are “rules” regarding what group members should think and do. They define what’s normal behavior in the group. Conformity to group norms enables the group to function smoothly. Unique ...

Companies put a great deal of time and effort in to encouraging employees to work effectively with their colleagues. If a company finds that workers have bonded in to a cohesive group, it should be a ...

The effects of social group norms (inclusion vs. exclusion vs. exclusion-plus-relational aggression) and school norms (inclusion vs. no norm) on 7- and 10-year-old children's intergroup attitudes were ...

The Prisoners' Dilemma (PD) game is a prototype of two central concerns of sociology, the problem of order and the problem of collective action, which are both types of conflict between individual and ...

Solomon Asch once remarked, "The tendency to conformity in our society is so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white, black. This is a matter of ...

Standardized testing has practically become a tradition within the American school system. But why? How did standardized assessment become such a big part of education? How does it really work?

Is obesity a socially transmitted disease? In order to find out, researchers in the United Kingdom conducted a systematic review of several experimental studies, each of which examined whether or not ...