Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein's new book “Conformity: The Power of Social Influence” clearly and thoughtfully lays out the familiar case for dissent. Conformity is dangerous, Sunstein ...

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What causes individuals to conform to the opinions and judgments of others? Why do they need to? When is it an advantage to merge with the group and when is it not? Investigating the social, ...

We need only look at schooling in America to see how engrained our disdain for diversity actually is. That is part of the post below about diversity in education — or rather what the author says is ...

A few decades ago, the model for a succeeding in business was built on a platform of employee conformity. Employees masked who they were, leaving their true selves at the office door, and went to ...