Impression Management Explains Our Manic Obsession With Our Reputation

Impression management is where we yield to peer pressure and engage in morally transgressive acts to win approval, doing things we wouldn't enact on our own. And for instance, opinion conformity, where we unquestionably espouse very harmful toxic views simply to elicit approval from groups that we admire. I'm actually kind of convinced that the toxicity of the white nationalist behavior that occurred in January 6 during the capital riots was not because there are this hordes of just terrible people. There are hordes of desperate people who want to connect with others"