The two major types of this behavior are conversion and compliance.
Deutsch and Gerard showed that this action is performed more often at higher degrees of uncertainty. Stanley Milgram found that the French do this less often than Norwegians, and Whittaker and Meade found that this occurs more often among the Bantu, which have sanctions against not doing it, than among Lebanese. The two major types of this behavior are conversion and compliance. The most famous experiment involving this action told participants it was actually a vision test, and pressured subjects to assert that an incorrect line was closer in length to another line after a group of confederates also identified the wrong line. For 10 points, name this action studied by Solomon Asch, in which a person subjugates his private attitudes in the face of implied social norms.
Deutsch and Gerard showed that this action is performed more often at higher degrees of uncertainty.
{conforming} [or word forms {such} as {conformity}]