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Over the years, psychologists have extensively researched the phenomena of conformity, with a focus on how group pressure affects it. Conformity is a change in attitude or conduct brought on arbitrarily by the real or perceived pressure of a group. This differs from simply imitating others' conduct since empathy is influenced by others' behavior.  Group psychologist Chester Insko discovered two main causes for why people typically support the majority view. First off, the minority will join the majority by appreciating the potential usefulness of the knowledge because it is frequently assumed that the majority is empirically true. Second, it was a reaction to not want to be excluded from the group, a reaction that is particularly common among adolescent middle and high school students. One of the most dramatic psychological experiments in history, S. Asch's most well-known sympathetic experiments were carried out in 1955.  Numerous follow-up studies have been done as a resu...