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. 2008 Jun;148(3):335-45.
doi: 10.3200/SOCP.148.3.335-346.

Me, us, or them: who is more conformist? Perception of conformity and political orientation

Nicoletta Cavazza  1 , Angelica Mucchi-Faina
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Me, us, or them: who is more conformist? Perception of conformity and political orientation

Nicoletta Cavazza et al. J Soc Psychol. 2008 Jun.

Abstract

Research has shown that people perceive others as more vulnerable than themselves to media communication, and their political out-group as more vulnerable than their political in-group. In the present study, the authors predicted that the same two biases would appear with respect to another kind of influence--conformity--but that participants' judgments would display a different pattern according to their political orientations. Right-wing and left-wing university students were asked to evaluate conformity and to estimate how conformist they, their political in-group, their political out-group, and other groups are. As hypothesized, right-wingers expressed more ambivalence toward conformity and viewed it less negatively than did left-wingers. Political orientation had no impact on the discrepancy between self and others, but it did moderate the in-group-out-group discrepancy.

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