Conformity And Informative Influence

Conformity is a way to make your way into a group. One can conform to positive or negative behaviors or mindsets. To conform one must change their beliefs or their behaviors in order to fall into a social norm. There are two main motives for conformity, informative and normative. Informative social influence is doing the right thing, this influence helps individuals to make the decision to follow the correct behavior instead of doing what the majority of people are doing. Normative social influence is following the behaviors of a group in order to be liked by them and to fit in. Both of these main motives for conformity influence everyone’s interactions with others, even my own personal relationships with others. Normative influence is a motive that seeks out ways to fit into a group by finding ways to change behaviors and beliefs that are

My decisions seem to be influenced more by the informative social influence. There are a few situations where I am influenced more by the normative social influence. For example situations where I am unsure about what my actions and behaviors are supposed to be I would follow others examples until I could form my own perspective an opinion, then I would be more likely to make my own judgement and then my own decisions on how to act. I think I fall under the influence of the informative influence more often than that the normative influence because I do not like peer pressure from a group. Nor do I enjoy just doing what others are doing just to be liked. I could not care less if people liked me just because I acted as they did. I value my life on doing the right thing for myself and others no matter the situation, regardless of the consequences. I try to always do the right thing. In some situations it does vary on what influences my behavior and beliefs. However, the majority of the time I am more influenced by the informative social