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Derren Brown's Conformity Illusions
- Derren Brown uses actors to create convincing illusions for his psychological tricks.
- These illusions show how strongly people conform to group beliefs even in bizarre scenarios.
Solomon Asch's Conformity Test
- Solomon Asch's experiment shows people conform to wrong answers when pressured by a confident majority.
- This experiment first revealed the power of the conformity bias in groups.
Conformity Overrides Rationality
- People often conform to social behavior without understanding or believing it, like applauding nonsense.
- We follow others' lead even when the presented information is obviously nonsensical.