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Glomar response. In United States law, the term Glomar response, also known as Glomarization or Glomar denial, [1] refers to a response to a request for information that will "neither confirm nor deny" (NCND) the existence of the information sought. [2] For example, in response to a request for police reports relating to a certain person, the ...
Conformity. Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms, politics or being like-minded. [1] Norms are implicit, specific rules, guidance shared by a group of individuals, that guide their interactions with others. People often choose to conform to society rather than to pursue personal desires – because ...
Social norm. A social norm is a shared standard of acceptable behavior by a group. [ 1 ] Social norms can both be informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society, as well as be codified into rules and laws. [ 2 ] Social normative influences or social norms, are deemed to be powerful drivers of human behavioural changes ...
Asch conformity experiments. In psychology, the Asch conformity experiments or the Asch paradigm were a series of studies directed by Solomon Asch studying if and how individuals yielded to or defied a majority group and the effect of such influences on beliefs and opinions. [1][2][3][4] Developed in the 1950s, the methodology remains in use by ...
Nonconformity to the world. Nonconformity to the world, also called separation from the world, is a Christian doctrine based on Romans 12:2, [1][2] 2 Corinthians 6:17 [3] and other verses of the New Testament that became important among different Protestant groups, especially among Wesleyans and Anabaptists. The corresponding German word used ...
Richard Dawkins, citing Adam Lee (2006) Richard Dawkins is an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author. These are the alternative to the Ten Commandments written by blogger Adam Lee, [9] [10] cited by Dawkins in his book The God Delusion: [11] Do not do to others what you would not want them to do to you.
Anticonformity (counterconformity) refers to when an individual consciously and deliberately challenges the position or actions of the group. [1] Anticonformity is not merely the absence of conformity. [2] Anticonformity can be a response to certain context and social pressure or expectations. [3] Anticonformity commonly takes place in a group ...
Nonconformist (Protestantism) Title page of a collection of Farewell Sermons preached by Nonconformist ministers ejected from their parishes in 1662. Nonconformists were Protestant Christians who did not "conform" to the governance and usages of the state church in England, and in Wales until 1914, the Church of England. [1][2] Use of the term ...